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There is a general chip-on-the-shoulder attitude in Prussia, which may be said, I think not unfairly, to be evident in all ranks, from their recent foreign diplomacy, down to the pedestrians and drivers. Many people whom I have met, not only foreigners but Germans from other parts of Germany, are loud in their denunciations of the Berliners. "Frech" and "roh" are words often used about them.
"Yes," answered Goethe, who suddenly assumed a grave, serious mien, "the must has fermented, and I trust a fine wine will clear itself from it." "Can you not set off, Wolf?" asked the duke, springing up. "Have you had sufficient of the Berliners?" "I have done with them," replied Goethe, "not only with the Berliners, but it may be with all the rest of humanity.
This evening in the theatre give some public evidence, give the Berliners something to talk about: then then " said she, softly, "the rest will come in time." Duke Algarotti and General Rothenberg returned to the castle much comforted by their interview with Barbarina.
"You must know that when I was in Berlin I frequently used to hear the Berliners repeat, and repellently prolong, a certain phrase namely, 'Ja wohl!; and, happening to meet this couple in the carriage-drive, I found, for some reason or another, that this phrase suddenly recurred to my memory, and exercised a rousing effect upon my spirits.
Some of Goethe's letters are full of charming expressions of praise and affection, for the aged Jupiter of German literature found in the promise of this young Apollo something of the many-sided power which made himself so remarkable. The Mendelssohn family had moved to Berlin when Felix was only three years old, and the Berliners always claimed him as their own.
"I have been told that he was the lover of Mademoiselle von Marwitz," said the king. "The world and the good Berliners believe that, but the initiated know that this pretended love is only a veil thrown by the bold youth over a highly traitorous passion." Pollnitz was silent; he waited for the king to speak, and watched him with a malicious smile.
One of the finest cities in Europe, wrote Forster in 1779; but the Berliners! The women in general were abandoned. An English diplomat, Sir John Harris, afterwards Lord Malmesbury, had the same impression: Berlin was a town where, if fortis might be translated by “honourable,” you could say that there was not a vir fortis nec femina casta.
To Bachmann, Russian Commandant, the Berliners, on his departure, had gratefully got ready a money-gift of handsome amount: 'By no means, answered Bachmann: 'your treatment was according to the mildness of our Sovereign Czarina. For myself, if I have served you in anything, the fact that for three days I have been Commandant of the Great Friedrich's Capital is more than a reward to me.
Take the Germans now: No less astute a world traveler than Samuel G. Blythe is sponsor for the assertion that the Berliners follow the night-life route because the Kaiser found his capital did not attract the tourist types to the extent he had hoped, and so decreed that his faithful and devoted subjects, leaving their cozy hearths and inglenooks, should go forth at the hour when graveyards yawn and who could blame them? to spend the dragging time until dawn in being merry and bright.
My heart burns with scorn and contempt for these torpid Berliners." "I understand you now," said the king; "you heard no bravos, you were not applauded; therefore you are angry?" "I laugh at it!" said she, looking fiercely at the king.
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