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108 Inspiring Quotes on Germany & Germany Instagram Captions 🇩🇪

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If you’re looking for inspiring quotes on Germany to spice up your Instagram and show how much you love the country, you’ve come to the right place!

Since my first “German exchange” trip as a schoolgirl to try out my German language skills, I’ve not stopped exploring Germany 🙂

I hope this collection of 108 quotes about Germany and Germany Instagram captions inspires you to get creative with your feed when you post photos of your trip to this fascinating country.

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Are you looking for Germany Instagram captions? I got you!

This list starts with short Germany captions for Instagram – perfect for your vacation photos. You’ll also find inspiring words by famous German politicians, authors – and others – if you prefer longer quotes about Germany.

Are you ready to pick your favourite Germany quotes? Lass uns gehen! (Let’s go)

Best Quotes On Germany

Here are my favourite quotes about Germany, drawing inspiration from poets, politicians, writers, sports and “celebrities”, plus selections by famous German authors and quotes about German food!

Short Germany Captions For Instagram

  1. “Exploring Germany’s charming streets, where history meets modern vibes! 🇩🇪✨ #GermanWonders”
  2. “Savoring every moment in Germany, one pretzel at a time! 🥨🇩🇪 #TasteOfGermany”
  3. “Cobbled streets and cathedral views – Germany’s magic captured in a snapshot! 🏰🌍 #TravelGoals”
  4. “Prost to the beauty of Germany! 🍻🇩🇪 #CheersToAdventure”
  5. “Lost in the enchantment of German castles and fairytale landscapes. 🏰🌲 #FairytaleGermany”
  6. “Embracing the vibes of Berlin – where history and creativity collide! 🎨🏰 #BerlinLove”
  7. “Wanderlust and sausages – just another day in beautiful Germany! 🌭🌍 #GermanyDiaries”
  8. “Sunsets over the Rhine River – a breathtaking sight in Germany! 🌅🇩🇪 #RhineRomance”
  9. “From pretzels to palaces, Germany has my heart! 💖🥨 #GermanAdventures”
  10. “Dive into the culture of Germany, where every corner tells a story. 📖🇩🇪 #CulturalJourney”
  11. “Biking through scenic German landscapes – a ride to remember! 🚴‍♂️🌳 #GermanTrails”
  12. “Every day is a new adventure in the land of fairytales and castles! 🏰🌈 #MagicOfGermany”
  13. “Berlin’s street art scene is a canvas of creativity! 🎨🚀 #BerlinArt”
  14. “Soaking in the vibes of a traditional German Christmas market! 🎄🎁 #ChristmasInGermany”
  15. “Captivated by the beauty of half-timbered houses in charming German villages. 🏡🌺 #VillageLife”
  16. “Bringing a bit of Bavaria to your feed – where beer gardens and good times go hand in hand! 🍺🌳 #BavarianNights”
  17. “Navigating the historic streets of Heidelberg – where each step feels like a journey through time. 🏰🗺️ #HeidelbergMagic”
  18. “From the Black Forest to the Baltic Sea – Germany’s diverse landscapes steal the show! 🏞️🇩🇪 #NatureLover”
  19. “Catching the sunrise over the Cologne Cathedral – a breathtaking start to the day! 🌅🏰 #CologneSunrise”
  20. “Epic road trips through the German countryside – where every turn is a scenic surprise! 🚗🌲 #RoadTripDreams”
  21. “Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate – a symbol of unity and history. 🇩🇪🏛️ #BrandenburgMemories”
  22. “Strolling through the charming streets of Rothenburg ob der Tauber – a fairytale come to life! 🏰🚶‍♀️ #RothenburgDreams”
  23. “Wine tasting in the vineyards along the Moselle River – a sip of German perfection! 🍇🍷 #MoselleMoments”
  24. “Cultural delights and architectural wonders – Germany, you’re a masterpiece! 🏰🎭 #GermanMasterpiece”
  25. “From the Berlin Wall to the Bavarian Alps – a journey through the layers of German history and beauty. 🏞️🇩🇪 #LayersOfGermany”

Quotes About Germany by Angela Merkel

26. “I said, yet again, for Germany, Europe is not only indispensable, it is part and parcel of our identity. We’ve always said German unity, European unity and integration, that’s two parts of one and the same coin. But we want, obviously, to boost our competitiveness.” Angela Merkel

27. “We needed 40 years to overcome East Germany. Sometimes in history, one has to be prepared for the long haul and not ask after four months if it still makes sense to keep up our demands.” Angela Merkel

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28. “Germany has become a country that many people abroad associate with hope.” Angela Merkel

Quotes on Germany By Other World Leaders and Politicians

29. “An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.” Otto von Bismarck

30. My struggle led to the reunification of Germany and the creation of the state of Europe. We destroyed the borders; globalization is on the horizon. Lech Walesa

31. “Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world.” Henry Kissinger

32. Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.” Douglas Hurd

33. “In my several visits to Germany, I have written in admiration of that country’s strenuous efforts to face its past and make amends.” Richard Cohen

34. Russia is Germany’s most important neighbour in the East, and it will remain so. Helmut Kohl

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35. “Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.” John Barden Shadegg

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36. We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink. As far as I can see, the greatest of these deadly foes is drink.” David Lloyd George

37. Germany is our fatherland; Europe is our future.” Helmut Kohl

Quotes on Germany By Authors

38. “How rich our German life is compared to France or England: what an abundance of social types and customs with completely different origins; Germany is a world, whereas England and France, with their stereotypically divided three social classes, are but enlarged villages… what a stage for a Balzac.” Harry Graf Kessler

39. “Learning German is what eternity was made for.” Mark Twain

40. “To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilisation.” George Orwell

41. “I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.” Francois Mauriac

42. The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally, I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.” Philip Kerr

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43. “The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.” Bayard Taylor

44. “German is a much more precise language than English. Americans throw the word love around for everything: I love my wife! I love all my friends! I love rock music! I love the rain! I love comic books! I love peanut butter! The word you use to describe your feelings for your wife should not be the same word you use to describe your feelings for peanut butter. Oliver Markus Malloy

45. “In the early days of his reign, Bismarck confided to a friend that it would someday be necessary for Germany to confine William II in an insane asylum.” Kelly Miller

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46. “Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.” Friedrich Nietzsche (philosopher)

47. Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.” Noam Chomsky

48. “I’m third generation. I was born in Germany, grew up in Germany, and many of my friends are German. I love playing for Germany. I’m proud I can play for the national team.” Mesut Ozil

49. “I’m German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn’t exist anymore.” Kurt Lagerfeld

50. “I would sum up the German character best by saying that they are the best of losers and the worst of winners.Edmund Ironside

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51. “My mum said: Germany is my second home and it’s true. Germany gave us their open hands. I don’t know which country could have done that, at that time, to welcome refugees from Bosnia.” Dejan Lovren

52. “I was in Germany when the wall came down.” Joe Cocker

53. “And so we went away to play, and we’d come back to Liverpool. And while we were doing this -cuz we did it for two years. And then we’d go to Germany, and that’s where I met the Beatles. Ringo Starr

54. “I love driving fast. I grew up in Germany; we have the Autobahn here, where we can drive without a speed limit. And throughout my 20s, I always had fast cars, and I always went to the maximum. Like, my average cruising speed was 250 km/hr.” Kim Dotcom

55. “There is more than enough room in the world for Germany and Britain.” John Amery

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56. “Germany’s amongst my top three places in the world I’d like to live.” Jonah Hill

57. “I learnt a lot in Germany, and the German mentality really helped me. It was an enormous step in my life.” Roberto Firmino

58. In my several visits to Germany, I have written in admiration of that country’s strenuous efforts to face its past and make amends. Richard Cohen

59. “Action alone doesn’t work in Germany – you need an emotional element to the story.” Til Schweiger

Germany Quotes by Craig Robinson

60. Always wanted to go to Germany… probably one of my top ten.

61. “My first time in Germany. We started off in Heidelberg, which is this quaint, nice town. The Germans, they shoot just like the Americans, except for, if it’s a 10-hour day, they’re leaving at 5. You don’t go to 5:30, 6, 7. No. And then we had a fest for everything.”

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62. When the Berlin Wall came down, my dad left to visit the U.S. He met my mom at this summer camp where they were both working, so I grew up between Washington Heights and Germany speaking two languages.” Zazie Beetz

63. “I grew up a little bit in Germany and then in Switzerland, then in France, the United States and in England, and so it is weird.” Alexander Dreymon

64. “I liked Germany; I’m not into Berlin, it’s too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.” Graham Coxon

65. “We always have a great time touring Germany, but one of my favourite museums in the world is Museum Ludwig, an incredible contemporary art museum in Cologne. I could spend all day in it.” Julien Baker

66. “I lived in Germany from when I was 6 until I was 10, so, of course, I played soccer. When I came back to the States, nobody played soccer, and none of the schools taught German, so I couldn’t continue to excel in those categories.” Kevin Nealon

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67. “I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It’s true.” Daniel Breaker

68. “For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.” Paul Engle

69. “A good 60 per cent of my time I spend travelling, mostly to the U.S., Canada and Germany.” Sara Davies

70. “I grew up in East Germany, and we were short on technology. So my father was really proud to be the owner of a turntable.” Apparat

71. “Germany’s fascinating. It’s a really rich landscape to film and dramatise.” Claire Danes

72. “It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.” Ruben Blades

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72. “Living in London is very different to living in a little town in Germany.” Per Mertesacker

73. “Travelling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.” Mia Wasikowska

Funny Quotes About Germany

A good laugh is such a tonic – these funny quotes about Germany will make you smile.

74. “What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other.” Tim Marshall

75. “The left-hand lane is exclusively for the use of Porsches, BMWs, and Mercedes. Dark-coloured vehicles only, please. If you’re driving a white or silver car, please stick to the middle lane and moderate your speed. Loser!” Cathy Dobson

Quotes About Germany By Sports Stars

76. “German women love American men. That’s why a lot of American servicemen go to Germany – and never come back” Michael Strahan

77. In Germany, they all thought I was a bit mental, very emotional.Jürgen Klopp

78. “Germany is, of course, my country.” Angelique Kerber

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79. “You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.” Graham Taylor

80. “I always say I have two hearts – one beats for Poland and the other for Germany.” Lukas Podolski

81. “All the dogs I have are German shepherds from Germany, and I fly them back to Germany to show them.” George Foreman

82. “Americans brag about their assault rifles. Germans brag about their exotic vacations.” Oliver Markus Malloy

83. When you come to a World Cup with Germany you are expected to win it.” Andre Schurrle

Quotes About the German Language

84. “Life is too short to learn German. Richard Porson

85. “Nobody speaks German outside of Germany.” Till Lindemann

86. “In Germany, I am not so famous.” Hans Berger

87. “When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I’d learn German. But my wife didn’t want to live in Germany.” Juan Manuel Fangio

88. “The entire language is threatening.” Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Germany Quotes – History and Culture

Germany’s past is complex, with writers such as Goethe and Schopenhauer, and incredible composers including Beethoven, Bach, Brahms and Mendelsohn, historical destruction and the separation of the country into East and West Germany, and the rise of the modern powerhouse economy. These quotes on Germany are here to give you more information about this rather special country before you visit.

89. There’s so many German songs which are really popular in Germany that I find really bad. It can quickly border on kitsch pop. Bill Kaulitz

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90. “Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.” Marguerite Gardiner. Countess of Blessington

91. “The thing that I like about Germany is that Germans are so much like us. It’s not like going to some other countries, where the differences are overwhelming and you walk around in a fog. Germans are so similar to Americans.” Matt Damon

92. “I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.” Brunello Cucinelli

93. “Then this will only prove again and again that Monarchy in Germany is no longer capable of a national act.” Ferdinand Lassalle

Quotes About German Food

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94. “You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee” Edward VII

95. Eating in Germany is easy because there is basically only one kind of food, called the “wurst”. Dave Barry

96. “….there are more different sausages in Germany than there are breakfast foods in America, and if there is a bad one among them, then I have never heard of it. They run in size from little fellow so small and pale and fragile that it seems a crime to eat them to vast and formidable pieces that look like shells for heavy artillery. And they run in flavour from the most delicate to the most raucous, and in texture from that of feathers caught in a cobweb to that of linoleum, and in shape from straight cylinders to lovely kinks and curlicues” Henry Louis Mencken

97. I am the emperor of Germany, but you are the emperor of chefs.” Emperor William II of Germany speaking to Georges-Auguste Escoffier

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98. “In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.” Rachel Johnson

Germany Puns

99. “Why do Germans make excellent musicians? Because they have great Bach-ground!”

100. “Germany is a-maze-ing – especially if you’re lost in the streets of Berlin!”

101. “What did the bread say when it met the butter in Germany? ‘You’re my perfect ‘butter’ half!'”

102. “Why did the scarecrow move to Germany? Because it heard the fields were ‘wunder-bar’!”

103. “I asked the waiter in Hamburg if the soup was vegetarian. He said, ‘No, it’s sauerkraut-arian!'”

104. “What do you call a German bee? A Deutsch buzzer!”

105. “Why did the computer go to Germany? It wanted more ‘byte’ for its buck!”

106. “What’s a German’s favourite type of humour? Schnitzel jokes – they’re always ‘cutting-edge’!”

107. “Why don’t Germans ever play hide and seek? Because good luck hiding when everyone knows you’re in ‘plain sight’!”

108. “Did you hear about the German sausage that won an award? It was the ‘wurst’ case scenario!”

Wrap Up – Quotes on Germany

Germany is such a fascinating country – it’s no surprise there are so many great quotes about Germany! Which ones resonated with you? Are you inspired to use any Germany quotes in your Instagram captions?

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