Famous quotes containing the words german and/or demands:
“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)
“If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)