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Insults and Insulting
Quotes about Turkey
As
cruel as a Turk.
Greek saying
How
will you tell a Turk? By the blood on his hands.
Greek saying
Be
at guard with old Turks and young Serbs.
Greek saying
That
was too cruel even for a Turk.
Dutch saying
Where
the Turk treads, for a hundred years the soil bears no fruit.
German saying
No
grass grows in the trail of a Turk.
Arab saying
Where
the Turks's horse treads once, the grass never grows again.
English
saying
Will
they ever be civilised? I think not. such a fine country ought to be in better
hands.
John Webster
A
Turk who hears the word 'paradise' asks "Is there any gold to be looted
there?"
Persian
saying
No
cold without a gust; no bad guest without a Turk.
Serbian saying
Perfectly
useles.
Horatio
Nelson
I
do not wish for camels milk and I do not wish for the sight of an Arab.
Turkish saying
The
Arab takes his bath in vain; he will become no whiter.
Turkish
saying
The
paradise of Thieves.
Eliza Fry
I
never saw a place I liked worse, nor which afforded less pleasure or instruction,
nor antiquities which less answered their description.
James Bruce
There
is not perhaps upon Earth a more dirty metropolis.
ED Clarke
A
practical joke played on history.
Peter Forster
The
Persian golf is the arsehole of the world, and Basra is 80 miles up it.
Peter Forster
An
artificial Babel.
Henry Tanner
Be on your guard
against an old Turk and a young Serb.
Czech saying
That were too
cruel even for a Turk.
Dutch saying
Where the Turk's
horse once treads, the grass never grows again.
English saying
Where the Turk
doth set foot, for a hundred years the soil brings forth no fruit.
German saying
To a Turk,
the inside of a town is a prison.
Osmanli saying
They gave a
beyship to the Turk; and he first killed his father. Osmanli saying
No cold without
a gust; and without Turks no bad guests.
Serbian saying
The Turk holds
his faith on his knees.
Serbian saying
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