Famous quotes containing the words german and/or ambassador:
“I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)