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Gulliver's Travels (German: Gullivers Reisen) is a 1924 Austrian silent adventure film directed by Géza von Cziffra and starring Eugen Neufeld, Liesl Stillmark and Gyula Szöreghy. It is based on the 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels by the Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift.
“He is taller by almost the breadth of my nail, than any of his court, which alone is enough to strike an awe into the beholders.”
“Ingratitude is among them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of mankind, from whom he has received no obligation, and therefore such a man is not fit to live.”
“The king, when he is highest provoked, and most determined to press a city to rubbish, orders the island to descend with great gentleness, out of a pretence of tenderness to his people, but, indeed, for fear of breaking the adamantine bottom; in which case, it is the opinion of all their philosophers, that the loadstone could no longer hold it up, and the whole mass would fall to the ground.”
“Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.”
“I told him...that we ate when we were not hungry, and drank without the provocation of thirst.”
“A traveller’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.