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Insults and Insulting
Quotes about Poland
A
jew thinks first of wife and child; a Pole thinks first of a horse or dog.
Yiddish saying
Love
without jealousy is like a Pole without lice.
French saying
The
Alps divide us from the Italians, From the French the river separates us, The
sea is between us and the English, But only hate keeps us and the Poles apart.
German rhyme
Where
the women are stronger than the men.
Russian saying
The
Pole is a thief.
German saying
Why
does the devil take the Poles? Because they are glad to go along.
Russian saying
The
Pole has a large mouth, but there is nothing behind it.
German saying
Where
there are three Poles there will be five opinions.
German saying
What
an Englishman invents, a Frenchman designs, or a German patches together, a
stupid Pole will buy and a Russian take from him.
Polish saying
Poles
and Czechs are like two close leaves, but when joined by the Hungarian they
make three fine thieves.
German saying
Do
not trust a Hungarian unless he has a third eye in his forehead.
Czech saying
Where
there is a Slav, there is song; where there is a Hungarian, there is rage.
Slovakian
saying
Sins
are born in Hungary.
Czech saying
As
base as a Hungarian.
Polish saying
There are few
virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever
avoided.
Winston Churchill, British prime minister and statesman
Love without
jealousy is like a Pole without lice.
French saying
The Alps divide
us from the Italians From the French, the rivers separate us The sea is between
us and the English But only hate keeps us and the Poles apart.
German 18th-century rhyme
Things are
run no better than in Poland.
German saying
He moans like
a Polack.
German saying
The Pole is
a thief; the Prussian, a traitor; the Bohemian a heretic; and the Swabian, a chatterbox.
German saying
The duck must
be a Polish animal, because it always goes tak, tak, tak.
German saying
The Pole has
a large mouth, but there is nothing behind it.
German saying
They are fighting
over the Polish crown.
German saying
Two privates
and four captains [in a Polish company].
German saying
Poland: The
heaven of the nobility; paradise of the Jews, purgatory of the common man, and
hell of the peasant; the gold-mine of foreigners, and the source of feminine luxury.
Rich in wool, it is yet without cloth, grows flax in overabundance, and yet imports
linen from abroad, favours all foreign goods and belittles its domestic products,
boasts of its costly purchases and despises everything that is cheap.
Italian saying
What an Englishman
cares to invent, a Frenchman to design, or a German to patch together, the stupid
Pole will buy and the Russian will deprive him of it.
Polish saying
Poland has
a ministry with four withouts: A minister of education without schools, a cultus
minister without churches, a minister of justice without justice, and a minister
of the treasury without finances.
Polish saying
We are not
in Poland where the women are stronger than the men. Russian saying
A single Russian
hair outweighs half a Pole.
Russian saying
When God made
the world, He gave the Poles some reason and the feet of a gnat, but even this
little was taken away by a woman.
Russian saying
Why does the
devil take the Polacks? Because they are glad to go along.
Ruthenian saying
The Pole is
there to oppress, and the peasant to endure.
Ukrainian saying
A Jew thinks
of wife and child; the Polish squire, of horse and dog.
Yiddish saying
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