Top 34 Quotes About Prussia
#1. There in the midst of German life is an alien and isolated race of men. Loud and self-conscious in their dress, hot-blooded and restless in their manner. An Asiatic horde on the sandy plains of Prussia. Forming among themselves a close corporation, rigorously shut off from the rest of the world.
Walther Rathenau
#2. We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
Vanessa Kerry
#3. The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.
James Stephens
#4. We're gonna do like Posh and Becks and call it after the place it was conceived."
"Where's that?" I asked.
"King of Prussia.
Henry G. Radcliff
#5. The war against Napoleon was won not by England but by Russia, Austria, and Prussia; but England won the last battle and she won the peace.
J. Christopher Herold
#7. To enlist the support of the people and of parliament, you only have to propose a profitable villainy.
Franz Grillparzer
#8. King Frederick I of Prussia conceived the Amber Chamber in 1701 as a magnificent gift to the Russian royal family that would seal the alliance between the two powers.
Stephen Kinzer
#9. Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#10. For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
Kelly Miller
#11. The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.
Prince Augustus William Of Prussia
#12. Where some states have an army, the Prussian Army has a state.
Voltaire
#13. Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon.
Ferdinand Lassalle
#14. Demons live in many lands, but particularly in Prussia.
Martin Luther
#15. I AM THE GREAT AND POWERFUL PRUSSIA
Prussia
#16. If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
Frederick The Great
#17. The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.
Kelly Miller
#18. I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.
Sean O Faolain
#20. I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.
Marilyn Monroe
#21. Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
George William Curtis
#22. Lord Chatham, the King of Prussia, nay, Alexander the Great, never gained more in one campaign than the noble lord has lost-he has lost a whole continent.
David McCullough
#23. As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
George MacDonald
#25. I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.
Heinrich Heine
#26. That in East Prussia Frederick William I tolerated the Mennonites as indispensable to industry,
Max Weber
#27. Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it
Otto Von Bismarck
#28. In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.
Martin Luther
#29. It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at leastthat might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.
Lord Chesterfield
#31. The weather was atrocious. A frightful storm burst upon us. We camped literally in water ... To cap our woe, there was no means to light a single fire. We had to imagine dinner.
Leonce Patry
#33. My grandmother on my father's side, a nightclub singer, was a Jewish refugee from Prussia who ended up in Jerusalem, where she met my grandfather - a British army officer. I remember as a child having bowls of chicken soup made by her. There were lots of interesting components, like feet and necks.
Jamie Cullum
#34. Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
Karl Kraus
