Famous Quotes / Manfred von Richthofen
15 Quotations by Manfred von Richthofen
- 1. According to the map he had fallen three miles behind the front. We had therefore brought him down o ...
- 2. As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, ...
- 3. During my whole life I have not found a happier hunting ground than in the course of the Somme Battl ...
- 4. I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I ca ...
- 5. I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
- 6. I should have been delighted had it come to a fight. I felt absolutely sure of myself with a pistol ...
- 7. In the beginning I took a great interest in the giant-plane. But funnily enough the gigantic machine ...
- 8. In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imagin ...
- 9. In the Squadron to which he belonged there was a rumor that the Red Machine was occupied by a girl, ...
- 10. It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.
- 11. One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me ...
- 12. Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French ...
- 13. That was a beautiful time. We cavalry men who had already been in touch with the enemy and had seen ...
- 14. The celebrated American swings are to me disgusting. One does not feel secure in them, but in a flyi ...
- 15. The English had hit upon a splendid joke. They intended to catch me or to bring me down.