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Insults and Insulting
Quotes about Germany
Two
world wars and one world cup, doodah, doodah
Football
chant to tune of Yankee Doodle
The
German may be a good fellow, but it is best to hang him just the same
Russian saying
One
thing I will say about the Germans, they are always perfectly willing to give
somebody's land to somebody else
Will Rogers
Marry
a German and you'll see that the woman have hairy tongues
Rumanian
saying
The
great virtues of the German people have created more evils than idleness ever
did vices
Paul Valery
Peace
with Germany is like a wolf and sheep living together
Polish saying
One
German a beer, two Germans an organisation, three Germans a war
Polish saying
God
invented man, the devil invented the German
Polish saying
Life
is too short to learn German
Richard Porson
I
speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
Emperor Charles V
The
East German manages to combine a Teutonic capacity for bureauracy with a Russian
capacity for infinite delay
Goronwy Rees
The Irish,
the Irish, They
don't amount to much, But they're all a darn sight better Than the dirty, dirty
Deutsch.
American folk jingle
There
are three kinds of Deutsch;
the Deutsch,
the damned Deutsch,
and the hog Deutsch.
American saying
I speak
Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (attrib.)
Rather
Turkish hatred than German love.
Croatian saying
Where
there is a German, there is deceit, and where there is a Gypsy there is theft.
Czech saying
When
a snake warms himself on ice, a German will begin to wish a Czech well.
Czech saying
Where
the moth is in the cloth, the wolf among the goats, fish without water, the student
among the girls, and the German in the council of the Czechs, things will never
turn out well.
Czech saying
Rather
die with Denmark than rot with Prussia.
Danish saying
The Germans
in Greek Are sadly to seek; Not five in fivescore, But ninety-five more. All save
only Hermann, And Hermann's a German.
English epigram
Send
the pig to Saxonland, wash it with soap; the hog returns and remains a hog.
Estonian saying
German
goods are fragile and German words deceptive. Finnish saying God guard us against
the health of the Germans [drinking] and the malady of the French [pox].
French saying
The Germans
gorge and swill themselves to poverty, and hell.
German saying
With
the Germans friendship make, But as neighbours do not take.
German saying
A German
doesn't need to jump into the water; he can swill to death in a glass of beer
or wine.
German saying
When
the Russian steals, he does it that he might have enough for himself for a single
day, but when the German steals he takes enough for his children and the morrow.
German saying
The German
lies as soon as he becomes polite.
German saying
The German
proposes and the police disposes.
German saying
Speak
to him, if you only know German.
Hungarian saying
Hungarians,
trust the Germans not; Be their promise ever so hot, And though they give you
a seal On it as large as a wheel There is absolutely nothing to it. May Jesus
Christ smite them dead!
Hungarian saying
I make
as much of it as a German of fresh water.
Italian saying
A German
Italianate is the devil incarnate.
Italian saying
Wherever
Germans are, it is unhealthy for Italians.
Italian saying
Three
things are in a poor plight: birds in the hands of children, young girls in the
hands of old men, and wine in the hands of Germans.
Italian saying
If the
truth in wine is hid, as the Sayings tell you, Then the German has discovered
truth, or will surely find it.
Latin epigram
He's
like a German. He can't understand a reasonable man.
Lithuanian saying
German
is a language which was developed solely to afford the speaker the opportunity
to spit at strangers under the guise of polite conversation.
National Lampoon
How much
disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German
intelligence.
Friedrich Nietzsche, German political philosopher, Twilight
of the Idols, 1889
Warsaw
and Cracow Polish capitals fine, But the German in Berlin Live like swine.
Polish folk rhyme
The clever
Germans are for all that a stupid lot; By the Pole in a poke, they have often
been bought.
Polish folk
rhyme
Just
as the winter cannot turn to summer, So the German can't become a brother.
Polish saying
The Germans
moans about his poverty; yet at home the coins jingle merrily.
Polish saying
The German
is dumb; he buys everything.
Polish saying
Speak
to the German, but with a stone in your pocket.
Polish saying
The German
may be as big as a poplar tree, but he is stupid as a bean.
Polish saying
Even
if he tempts no one else, the devil will persuade the German.
Polish saying
God invented
man; the devil, the German.
Polish saying
At the
German's, it's always after dinner.
Polish saying
Serve
the German with all your heart; Your reward will be a fart.
Polish saying
The German
in the council hall; the goat in the garden, the wolf in the stable, the liar
at court, and a woman in office - this is all pretty bad business.
Polish saying
He is
as grateful as a German.
Polish saying
The German
is as sly as the plague.
Polish saying
When
a German marries a Polish girl, it is as if the devil were to unite with an angel.
Polish saying
You will
sooner catch a ray of the sun than reach an agreement with the German.
Polish saying
The German
is wise up to noon. He becomes stupid thereafter soon.
Polish saying
A dead
German, a dead dog; the difference is but slight.
Polish saying
If anyone
is born a German, God has sufficiently punished him already.
Russian saying
The German
may be a good fellow; but it's better to hang him just the same.
Russian saying
He would
not be a German, if he were not greedy.
Ruthenian saying
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