High German Word

Famous quotes containing the words high, german and/or word:

“The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put to rest its receptor organs and allowed them to suffer the true beginnings of atrophy.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“So far no actual revolutionary masses have come into view. This might be considered sufficient reason for reproaching someone who has set out to describe a revolution. But it is not our fault. This is, after all, a German revolution.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)

“Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)