Quotes of Polish or German kings, generals

anyone know any good quotes of German or Polish kings or generals i need it for a history class pls ^_^

Stefan Batory to one of bishops:
" - A bishop who can not speak Latin is strange."
The bishop to the king:
" - Even stranger is a king of Poland who can not speak Polish."

That site should help you:

worldofquotes.com/index.php

Otto von Bismarck:

"Bismarck, who himself spoke Polish, wrote about Poles: "One shoots the wolves if one can."[22] He also said: "Beat Poles until they lose faith in a sense of living. Personally, I pity the situation they're in. However, if we want to survive -we've got only one option - to exterminate them.[23]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck

Kinda prophetic vision ...

Bismarck was neither king nor general..;)

PS: This translation:


...is quite wrong!

The original says:


deutsche-und-polen.de/personen/person_jsp/key=otto+von_bismarck.html

Correct translation:


...the wolf, not the Pole! ;)

thank u guys ^_^

The last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski:

"Oh yeah? We'll see!"

The famous king Jan III Sobieski after saving the Vienna from the siege by the charge of the famous winged hussars:

"Was it so hard?"

Lech Wałęsa (not a king - I know) express his views on the proposition to preserve an old constitution of People's Republik of Poland for a few more years:

"Nah. It stinks."

I found that quite nice:


French proverb

worldofquotes.com/search.php

"Haut" can also mean poor or perplex. In that case, the translation would be:

"Poor Poles, giving all hope up on life; I have all the pity in the World for their situation, but we cannot help it that the wolf was created by God the way he is and that we kill him for being what he is, when we can."

But in this case it would indeed be:

"Just beat the Poles until they give up on life (...)"

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M-G (haec hactenus)

Eh??? ...but your english is still way better than mine!

"Ach du arme Haut"

"Dass haut mich glatt aus den Socken"

>^..^<

M-G (contextual)

I never heard that before! I would translate that as: "Oh you poor skin!" ;)


That I know :)

We can agree on your second translation for Bismarcks saying though...It's correct I would say!

German commander-in-Chief of Army Group Vistula:

"All Poles will disappear from the world.... It is essential that the great German people should consider it as its major task to destroy all Poles."

No, it translates as "Oh you poor devil."

A quote of a well-know German politician:


This morning, Poland for the first time shot at us on our own territory with regular troops. As of 5:45 we shoot back! And from now on, every bomb will be retalliated with bombs.

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M-G (nah - going to the pub in a little while, when the rain has eased down)

Nah..."Haut" never means Devil...no way!

"Haut" is either the Skin or "haut/hauen", the adjective of "beat/beating".


Do you have a source Borrke? I don't trust your understanding very much...

edit: Found it...was by Heinrich Himmler...he wasn't a general or king either!

dict.cc/?s=Haut

Check under section 3 Words - Others, second from above in that section.

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M-G (halli hallo)

"Poland’s existence is intolerable and incompatible with the essential conditions of Germany’s life. Poland must go and will go!"

Generalmajor Hans von Seeckt

Bratwurst - I think this is a disgrace that some foreigners are forced to teach you your own language. What kind of German do you think you are? :-)

You mean that: "haut ab"? It's common speech for: "Go away".."Leave already"....(adressing several people compared to "Hau ab")


I'm wondering already!


At the third try! :)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Seeckt


...couldn't find the quote though...

No.

I said SECTION THREE, not TWO.


I know :) I was born and raised about 8 km from the German border :)

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M-G (jezes krist)

Alle guten Dinge sind drei.

Ack...here is a much better site telling you everything you ever wanted to know about "HAUT"

dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed&sectHdr=on&spellToler=&search=Haut

I never ever heard someone say Devil=Haut! (I'm not telling M-G how to speak dutschisch on the other hand)

I think my knowledge of German is pretty good, but thanks :)

Did you find it now? Well, it doesn't matter anyway. Perhaps it's old-fashioned German?

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M-G (it's not important anyway)

I think your dictionary got it wrong...so!


If someone mangles my language it's important! ;)

Frederick the Great spoke of the Poles as "slovenly Polish trash", "the Iroquois of Europe" and "a barbarous people sunk in ignorance and stupidity".

Since you don't wanna bring sources I do :)
thinkexist.com/quotes/frederick_the_great/

My favourite:


military-quotes.com/frederick-the-great.htm

And some more from the great Friedrich: brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/frederick_ii.html


Men like this aren't born anymore!

“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”

Copernicus

“I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.”

Lech Walesa

After the signing of the Targowica Confederation:"Each true Pole, not blinded by the Prussian and royalist cabal, is convinced, that our Fatherland can only be saved by Russia, otherwise our nation will be enslaved".

Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki

After Stanisław August Poniatowski's abdication and the destruction of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: "About past Poland and Poles [I don't want to talk anymore]. Gone is this country, and this name, as many others have perished in the world's history. I am now a Russian forever."

Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki

"The King reigns,
but does not govern."
Jan Zamoyski

"Veni, Vidi, Deus Vicit" or "I came, I saw, God conquered"
by Jan Sobieski III after his hussars routed the Turks before Vienna on 12 september 1683.

Yea he stole that from Julius Caesar and put God in...how creative...

Still a great victory though