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Insults and Insulting
Quotes about Switzerland
Since
its national products - snow and chocolate - both melt, the cuckoo clock was
invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
Alen Coren
In
Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder,
bloodshed, and they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Ramaissance.
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy an dpeace,
and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles
A
country to be in for two hours, to two and a half if the weather is fine, and
no more. Ennui comes in the third hour, and suicide attacks you before the night.
Lord Brougham
I
don't like Switzerland - it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
Oscar Wilde
Switzerland
has produced the numbered bank account, Ovaltine and Valium.
Peter Freedman
No
more money, no more Swiss.
French saying
the
Swiss has two bad nights when he can't sleep - one where he has overloaded his
stomach, and the other where hs is lying awake thnking about how he can overload
it again.
German saying
You
may as well bang your head into a wall as talk to a Swiss.
French saying
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