High German Word

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

“No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.”
—Otto Weininger (1880–1903)

“Some of us prefer Austrian voices risen in song to ugly German threats.”
—Ernest Lehman (b. 1920)

“I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)