“In these days of “rolled” gold, electro-plate, and undetectable pearls, it is curious that almost the only honest Ersatz material known to the goldsmith's art should be utterly forgotten.”

— 1923, Arthur Michael Samuel, “Pinchbeck”, in The Mancroft Essays, page 164:

“Ersatzgas, Ersatzpfennige. Ersatz has become a brave word in Germany. As a substantive it means War Reparations. As part of compounded words it means substitute.”

— [1929 September 16, “Zeppelining”, in Time:

““There we are, you see! No discipline, no backbone! Have you by any chance any discipline, sir? Have you any character? Everything is fake. Everything is ersatz [translating German Ersatz]—vulgarity is everywhere I look.””

— 1977, Robin Smyth, transl., Mephisto, New York: Random House, translation of original by Klaus Mann, page 70: