Quotes by Manfred von Richthofen

Manfred von Richthofen

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

Boys

Father

Wish

English had hit upon a splendid joke. The intended to catch me or to bring me down.

Bring Me Down

Catch Me

Splendid

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

Eye

Stupidity

Swag

Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater . . . is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear.

Air

Aviation

Lost

Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

Fighting

Heart

Military

Fighter pilots rove in the area allotted to them in any way they like, and when they spot an enemy they attack and shoot them down…. Everything else is rubbish.

Enemy

Pilots

Way

Find the enemy and shoot him down. Anything else is nonsense.

Enemy

Military

Nonsense

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

Fall

Skins

Swag

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

Beautiful

Enemy

Stones

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

Enough

Littles

Opinion

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Accomplishment

Air

Aviation

Beautiful

Blood

Bombs

Boys

Brain

Bring Me Down

Car

Catch Me

Cheesy

Collections

Combat

Curves

Customers

Done

Eggs

Enemy

Enough

Eye

Fall

Father

Fighting

Firsts

Flight

Flying

Hands

Heart

Important

Last Words

Littles

Looks

Lost

Luck

Mean

Men

Military

Murder

Nonsense

Numbers

Opinion

Opponents

Opportunity

Perseverance

Pilots

Pity

Pleasure

Quality

Restless

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Quotes by Manfred von Richthofen

Manfred von Richthofen

As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.

English had hit upon a splendid joke. The intended to catch me or to bring me down.

Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

Everything in the air that is beneath me, especially if it is a one seater . . . is lost, for it cannot shoot to the rear.

Fight on and fly on to the last drop of blood and the last drop of fuel, to the last beat of the heart.

Fighter pilots rove in the area allotted to them in any way they like, and when they spot an enemy they attack and shoot them down…. Everything else is rubbish.

Find the enemy and shoot him down. Anything else is nonsense.

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

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