An anecdote on Dénes Kõnig told by his student, Peter Lax, 
and published by Harold W. Kuhn:

The German version of the famous dictum 
"In mathematics there is no royal road" is:  
"In der Mathematik gibt kein Königsweg". 
Someone quoted this to Dénes by way of teasing him, 
to which he replied:
"Aber es gibt ein Grafenweg".
(the word "Graf" also means the aristocraric title "count".)