Maria: When we enter the Abbey, our worldly clothes are given to the poor. Colonel Von Trapp: What about this one?... Maria: The poor didn't want this one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Walther Frank, Julius Streicher and Robert Ley did pass under my inspection... and interrogation in 1945 but they only proved that National Socialism was a gangster interlude at a rather low order of mental capacity and with a surprisingly high incidence of alcoholism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He's leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German touri...sts are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf's and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderliness ... and he would not be a Germa...n if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty--excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandab...le--should persist after the beauty was gone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I suppose the fact is that no friendship can stand the breakfast test.... Civilisation has done away with curl-papers, yet at that... hour the soul of the Hausfrau is as tightly screwed up in them as was ever her grandmother's hair, and though my body comes down mechanically, having been trained that way by punctual parents, my soul never thinks of beginning to wake up for other people till lunch-time, and never does so completely till it has been taken out of doors and aired in the sunshine. Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning? It is the hour of savage instincts and natural tendencies; it is the triumph of the Disagreeable and the Cross. I am convinced that the Muses and the Graces never thought of having breakfast anywhere but in bed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeate...dly emphasized.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »