Switzerland Quotes

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. (Ernest Hemingway)
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate. View quote
Larry David
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce The cuckoo clock. View quote
Orson Welles
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland. View quote
Sydney Smith
That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes. View quote
Martina Hingis
And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails. View quote
Herman Gorter
I am a neutral country. I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures. View quote
Stephenie Meyer
To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus. View quote
Tom Stoppard
I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. View quote
Billy Connolly
England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little. (Hugh Laurie)
Hey," says Hayden, "I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate." "Get lost," Roland tells him. "Already am." And Hayden strolls away. View quote
Neal Shusterman
I'm Switzerland; neutral as can be, and also with great chocolate. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime. View quote
Jean Ziegler
Switzerland has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, the strongest currency and the largest financial center for foreign assets. And we're a small country with no natural resources. Switzerland is the world capital of dealing in stolen goods. View quote
Jean Ziegler
My main place is in Switzerland, but I live on a plane, really. View quote
Christopher Lambert
I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German. View quote
Martina Hingis
I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great. View quote
Brad Gilbert
Internationally, I love going to Switzerland. I went there many times for shooting and loved the Alps, the tranquility, cleanliness, the greenery and the warmth of the people there. View quote
Chiranjeevi
Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors. View quote
Fritz Kreisler
The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure. (Fritz Kreisler)
To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America. View quote
Peter Munk
I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America. View quote
Parminder Nagra
I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland. View quote
Ursula Andress
I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland. View quote
Yannick Noah