German Civil Law

Famous quotes containing the words german, civil and/or law:

    “I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.”
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

    “They have been waiting for us in a foetor
    Of vegetable sweat since civil war days,
    Since the gravel-crunching, interminable departure
    Of the expropriated mycologist.”
    —Derek Mahon (b. 1941)

    “Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man;
    No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)