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Life is too short to learn German.

(britischer klassischer Philologe) - 25.12.1759 - 25.09.1808

Germany

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It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

Charles Dickens

London

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

David Bailey

London

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

Louis Bayard - Mr. Timothy

London

I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

Boris Johnson

London Orlando

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

John Cleese

London

London. The beating heart of England.

Enola Holmes in Enola Holmes

London

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

Daniel Radcliffe

London

Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

Donatella Versace

Fashion Creativity London

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

Tadao Ando

Paris London Tokyo

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Samuel Johnson

London

I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.

Daisy Ridley

Los Angeles London

In London I feel free; nobody bothers anyone and everyone is free to express themselves.

Manolo Blahnik

London

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

Vivienne Westwood

London

The best creative no longer has to originate in Chicago or London; it will be coming from Stockholm, Tokyo, and Seoul as well.

Richard Edelman

Stockholm London Chicago Seoul Tokyo

The Germans have six months of winter and six months of no summer.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Summer Germany Winter

German literacy ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

Mark Twain

Germany Languages

Germany... a country whose idea of a bedtime story is two children being left to die in the forest, before nearly being cooked and eaten and then murdering an old woman.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Germany Fairytales

Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle.

Barack Obama

Germany Berlin

The Germans and many others have the gift to make science inaccessible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Germany Science

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

Mark Twain in A Tramp Abroad

Germany Wine

In Germany, success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.

Gerhard Schröder - about Germany dropping out of the EURO 2000

Germany Success

Germany... where the national motto is, "let's stick to the present, shall we?"

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight)

Germany

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his Atlantic with his verb in his mouth.

Mark Twain

Germany

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

China Hackers

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

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