Of these two literatures [French and German], as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has beena critical effort; the endeavours, in all branches of knowledgeötheology, philosophy, history, art, scienceötoseethe object as initself it really is.

-Arnold, Matthew
On Translating Homer, lecture 2.

German memory was like a massivetongue seeking out, over and over, a sore tooth.

-Buruma, Ian
  The Wages of Guilt.

Wha the deil hae we got for a King, But a wee, wee German lairdie!

-Cunningham, Allan
  Poems and Songs,'The Wee, Wee German Lairdie', stanza1.

   Wenn das deutscheVolk dieWaffen niederlegte, wu«  rden die Sowjets†ganz Ost- und Su« d osteuropa zuzu«  glich des gr o« ÞtenTeiles des Reiches besetzen.Vor diesem einschlieÞlich der Sowjetunion riesigenTerritorium wu«  rde sich sofort ein eisernerVorhang heruntersenken. Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets†would occupyall eastern and south-eastern Europe together with the greater part of the Reich.Over all thisterritory, whichwith the Soviet Unionwould be of enormous extent, an iron curtain would at once descend. See also Churchill 217:92.

-Goebbels, (Paul) Joseph
  In Das Reich, a Nazi propaganda weekly, quoted in The Times and the Manchester Guardian on 23 Feb.

  Iherebycommissionyouto carryout all thepreparations withregardto†atotal solutionoftheJewishquestion, in those territories of Europe that are under German influence.

-Goering, HermannWilhelm
  Directive to the Nazi High Command, 31  Jul, quoted in William Shirer The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1962).

Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons† Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

-Herzl,Theodor
Quoted in Carl E Schorske Fin-de-Sie' c le Vienna (1961), p.165.

Igreet you as the advanceguard of the world proletarian army. The hour is not far off when†the German people will turn their weapons againsttheircapitalist exploiters. The sun of the socialist revolution has already risen.

-Lenin,Vladimir Ilyich originally Vladimir IlyichUlyanov
  Speech, Petrograd,16  Apr.

   A spectre is haunting Europeöthe spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holyalliance to exorcise this spectre; Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies.

-Marx, Karl Heinrich
  The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels, translated by Samuel Moore,1888).

Asked by the chairmantheusual question: 'Iunderstand, Mr Strachey, that you have a conscientious objection to war?' hereplied (inhis curiousfalsettovoice),'Ohno, not at all, only to this war.'Better thanthiswashisreply tothe chairman's other stock question, which had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant.'Tell me, Mr Strachey, what would youdoif yousawa Germansoldier trying to violate your sister?' With an air of noble virtue: 'I would try to get between them.'

-Strachey, (Giles) Lytton
On his appearance before a military tribunal, in Robert Graves GoodbyeToAllThat (1929), ch.23.

Like German opera, too long and too loud.

-Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn
  Of warfare. Attributed.

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English speaking audiences.

-Wharton, Edith Newbold ne¤  e Jones
  TheAge of Innocence, bk.1, ch.1.