Moltke

Naturally, virtue and other such fine things do exist, but innocence and virtue are like Bismarck and Moltke, that is, they are rare.

Chapter XXIII 1917

It has been said that this was less the idea of Moltke than that of Bismarck, whose famous phrase about letting the Parisians stew in their own juice will be remembered.

My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887

Prussians; whether the man called Moltke was not a mere strategist on paper, a crotchety pedant; whether, if Belgium became so enamoured of the glories of France as to solicit fusion with her people, England would have a right to offer any objection, &c., &c.

The Parisians — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

He answered all questions with a constrained voice and an insipid smile, -- all questions pointedly addressed to him as to what demonstrations of admiring sympathy with the gallantry of France might be expected from the English Government and people; what his acquaintance with the German races led him to suppose would be the effect on the Southern States of the first defeat of the Prussians; whether the man called Moltke was not a mere strategist on paper, a crotchety pedant; whether, if Belgium became so enamoured of the glories of France as to solicit fusion with her people, England would have a right to offer any objection, &c., &c.

The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Ibsen's sarcasms are all at the ugliness and prosaic utilitarianism of the Germans; "Moltke," he says, "has killed the poetry of battles."

Henrik Ibsen 2008

Ibsen's sarcasms are all at the ugliness and prosaic utilitarianism of the Germans; "Moltke," he says, "has killed the poetry of battles."

Henrik Ibsen 2008

Ibsen's sarcasms are all at the ugliness and prosaic utilitarianism of the Germans; "Moltke," he says, "has killed the poetry of battles."

Henrik Ibsen Edmund Gosse 1888

The German force consisting of 3 battlecruisers ( '' Moltke '', '' Seydlitz '', and '' Derffinger ''), the

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

Thirty-seven-year-old Helmuth von Moltke had inherited the family estate in Silesia but instead of the military had pursued international law.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

At least six-feet-five-inches tall, Moltke was well read, well educated, and well traveled, having made a number of friends in American circles, such as Alexander Kirk the U.S. ambassador to Cairo, journalist Dorothy Thompson, and Donovan.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011