Top German Language Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of German Language quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Mark Twain
How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
- Mark Twain
Collection: German Language
Image of Mark Twain
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
- Mark Twain
Collection: German Language
Image of Jean Paul
The German language is the organ among the languages.
- Jean Paul
Collection: German Language
Image of Mark Twain
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
- Mark Twain
Collection: German Language
Image of Mark Twain
Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
- Mark Twain
Collection: German Language
Image of Mark Twain
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.
- Mark Twain
Collection: German Language
Image of Karl Kraus
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.
- Karl Kraus
Collection: German Language