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Quote by Conrad Veidt
My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an uph

My birth neither shook the German Empire nor caused much of an upheaval in the home. It pleased mother, caused father a certain amount of pride and my elder brother the usual fraternal jealousy of a hitherto only son. – Conrad Veidt

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