At Home and Abroad
whole conceited, presumptuous world of Junkerdom, has
become the legend and the scorn of the age.
JOSEPH  GOERRES,   1819
If while I am abroad I come across a man who is too dis-
obliging for a Frenchman, too ceremonious for a Briton,
too simple for an Italian, too supple for a Spaniard, too
lively for a Dutchman, too modest for a Russian— a man
who obtrudes himself with sidelong bows, and with in-
describable resignation does homage to all whom he believes
to be more distinguished than himself — then my heart and
the blood in my cheeks tell me: "This man is your corn-
patriot."	KARL JULIUS WEBER,  1832-1840
Already I have often wondered why the proverb is not
current throughout Europe : Coarse and boorish as a German
student.	karl julius weber, 1832-1840
For that matter, in a foreign country the German element
is even more unpleasing than at home. Only in the second
and third generation, as a rule, does the German in Belgium,
France and North America lose the links of his chains, of
which in the first generation he boasts, or he strikes out with
them like a madman.	arnold ruge, 1846
The Germans, like exported beer, do not improve abroad.
heinrich heine (Literary Remains, 1869)
The young girl said : "The gentleman must be very rich,
for he is very ugly." The public judges in the same way:
"The man must be very learned, for he is very tedious."
Hence the success of many Germans in Paris.
heinrich heine (Literary ^ mains ^ 1869)
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