In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in everybody.
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In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
quote by Gertrude Stein
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In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
quote by Graham Greene
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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.
quote by Ernest Hemingway
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Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Rachel I
In Paris all look'd hot and like to fade.
Sere, in the garden of the Tuileries,
Sere with September, droop'd the chestnut-trees.
'Twas dawn; a brougham roll'd through the streets and made
Halt at the white and silent colonnade
Of the French Theatre. Worn with disease,
Rachel, with eyes no gazing can appease,
Sate in the brougham and those blank walls survey'd.
She follows the gay world, whose swarms have fled
To Switzerland, to Baden, to the Rhine;
Why stops she by this empty play-house drear?
Ah, where the spirit its highest life hath led,
All spots, match'd with that spot, are less divine;
And Rachel's Switzerland, her Rhine, is here!
poem by Matthew Arnold from Sonnets (1867)
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We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.
quote by Fred Frith
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I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
quote by Billy Connolly
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I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
quote by Sydney Smith
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Just one more summer
At times I want to ask God
for just one more summer,
but when I think back
my winters also bloomed.
Nobody would want to pass up
the summer sunshine
at Gordon’s Bay and Margate
with someone smiling at you
but I will also be happy
to have another winter
in the Drakensberg mountains
at Alpine Heath
or to stay at Little Switzerland
with soft arms around me.
poem by Gert Strydom
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I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.
quote by Martina Hingis
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
quote by Parminder Nagra
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
quote by Ursula Andress
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In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci 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.
Orson Welles in The Third Man (1949)
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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.
quote by Larry David
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Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.
quote by Samuel Schmid
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The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.
quote by Fritz Kreisler
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There was the joke about Switzerland being an island surrounded by land. This was never true.
quote by Samuel Schmid
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I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
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That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit.
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In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
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