Otto von Bismarck Quotes


"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Fraud, Gentleman)

"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."
- Otto Von Bismarck
(Related: Europe, Expression)

"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Truth, Fool, Want, World)

"When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Intention, Practice)

"When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Intention, Man, Practice)

"To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Laws, Respect)

"There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: America, Children, Idiots, Providence, states, United)

"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Politics, Russia)

"The main thing is to make history, not to write it."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: History)

"The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Blood, Day, Decisions, Majority, Questions, Will)

"A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling."
- Otto von Bismarck
"Politics is the art of the possible."
- Otto Von Bismarck
(Related: Art, Politics)

"Politics is not an exact science."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Politics, Science)

"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: War, Lie, People)

"No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Civilization, Christian, Worth)

"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Politics)

"Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Being, Laws)

"I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Inspiring, Sight)

"Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: War, Politeness, Rules)

"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: War, Dying, Eyes, Will)

"An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Fear, Echo)

"All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Conflict, Existence, states, Struggle)

"A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Government, Right)

"Politics ruins the character."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: Politics, Character)

"A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment."
- Otto von Bismarck
(Related: God, Events)