85 Austria Quotes

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While other nations do battle, you lucky Austria, you wed. — Maria Theresa

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe. - Niki Lauda

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe. — Niki Lauda

We went to Austria to train and it was so peaceful. And I love coffee and the coffee was great. — Alex Morgan

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt. — Karl Kraus

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. — Arthur Seyss-Inquart

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly. — Frederic Chopin

What impressed me particularly in Vienna was the strict order everywhere. No mob disturbances of any kind, in spite of the greatly increased liberty and relaxation of police regulations. — Fritz Kreisler

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown. — Jonathan Carroll

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna. - Napoleon Bonaparte

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna. — Napoleon Bonaparte

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom. — Lajos Kossuth

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade. — Howard Coble

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself. — Adolf Loos

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink. — David Lloyd George

Short Austria Quotes

  • Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry. — Scott Westerfeld
  • I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family. — Wolfgang Puck
  • You know, I'll tell who's really embraced football is Austria. Austria's really embraced football. — Mike Leach
  • There's not really genres as storytelling in Austria, unfortunately. — Susanne Wuest
  • I've always wanted to go to Austria. — Laura Benanti

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Austrian economists are rarely dogmatic or objectivist in their definition of sound money. They define it not as a specific good or commodity, but as whichever money emerges on the market, freely chosen by the people who transact with it. — Saifedean Ammous

I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view. — Walter Kohn

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. — Boris Johnson

Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world. — Chuck Palahniuk

I have always had severe problems with Austrians. ... Musical, churchy, uptight... nice legs... hypocritical... authoritarian... always insist their dustbins are very clean. — Peter Greenaway

Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes — Napoleon Bonaparte

If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed. — Gustav Mahler

A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being. — Otto von Bismarck

Vienna Quotes

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you. — Billy Joel

I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. Alas, for the illusions of youth: as a horseman, I was never really first-rate. — Joseph A. Schumpeter

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead. — Erich von Stroheim

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories. — Hedy Lamarr

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna. — Storm Jameson

I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born. — Eric Kandel

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect. — Gyorgy Legeti

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna. — Karl von Frisch

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910. - Karl von Frisch

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910. — Karl von Frisch

For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood. — Alfred Schnittke

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More Austria Quotes

Long live Germany. Long live Austria. Long live Argentina. These are the countries with which I have been most closely associated and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready. — Adolf Eichmann

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria. — Mario Batali

Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? — Theodore Bikel

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically. — Emily Greene Balch

I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but it must be free from Austria. — Gavrilo Princip

The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians and that within three weeks we will be negotiating (God forbid that this should happen). May we at last be avenged for all the outrages we have suffered from this country! — Marie Antoinette

My personal achievements awarded with this title would not have been possible without the enthusiasm and hard work of my international team of young students and PhD students, and without the institutions and funding bodies in Austria, Sweden and Germany that enabled me to set up laboratories and develop research projects. — Emmanuelle Charpentier

I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy... and then I did Spain and France by myself. — Michael Fassbender

My fellow Americans, this is an amazing moment for me. To think that a once-scrawny boy from Austria could grow up to become governor of the state of California and then stand here... then stand here in Madison Square Garden and speak on behalf of the president of the United States - that is an immigrant's dream. It is the American dream. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

When most people return from Europe, they tell tales of all the sites they saw, the shopping, the entertainment, etc. Jews, on the other hand, return and say I had this slice of cake in Austria, let me tell you, I don't know how they make it! It was great! — Jackie Mason

The north German does not go in for extremes. He has broader horizons than the men from the mountains of Bavaria and Austria. — Karl Donitz

I have on the one hand a hatred and on the other a yearning for Vienna. I left when I was nine years old because I was Jewish. And even before 1938, the anti-Semitism in Austria was probably deeper than it was in Germany or in other European countries. — Eric Kandel

American Christians have been woefully silent on important issues. I am an American citizens now, and I love this country, but I see symptoms in the United States that I saw in Austria in 1938 when the Nazi Germans were terrorizing Europe. — Maria von Trapp

David Irving is under arrest in Austria for Holocaust denial. Perhaps there is a case for making climate change denial an offence - it is a crime against humanity after all. — Margo Kingston

The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years. — Lajos Kossuth

The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. That Austria would one day return to the Reich was a matter of course for all National Socialists and for true Germans in Austria. — Arthur Seyss-Inquart

Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am. — Franz Grillparzer

Mr. Shaw came for a short time recently to be regarded less as an author than as an incident in the European War. In the opinion of many people it seemed as if the Allies were fighting against a combination composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Mr. Shaw. — Robert Wilson Lynd

Let others make war, you happy Austria marry, for kingdoms given to others by Mars, Venus will give to you. — Matthias Corvinus

Matt Le Tissier had firm views about Austria's reluctance to allow Turkey full membership of the EU last Saturday, I seem to recall. — Jeff Stelling

After the war, the Austrians just denied their role in it all. They didn't teach it in school. But since 1990 they have openly acknowledged their role in the Holocaust and I feel more comfortable in Austria. I feel a sort of reconciliation. — Eric Kandel

I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans. — Rick Atkinson

There is a dessert dish in Austria called Kaiserschmarrn - it's kind of like a sweet raisin pancake with eggs and sugar. It's definitely not something I can eat often, but if I've done well at a race, sometimes that's my celebration treat! — Lindsey Vonn

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed. — Karl Kraus

I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth... It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting. — Wolfgang Puck

Here in Spain, there are Argentine Jews, children and grandchildren of immigrants of Jews who fled Germany or Austria in the thirties, and in the seventies during the dictatorship, they had to go into exile again. — Antonio Munoz Molina

Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure. — Franz Grillparzer

In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm. — Sayings

When you get your driving license [in Austria], you check the box if you do not want to donate your organ. Nobody checks boxes. That's too much effort. One percent check the box. — Shlomo Benartzi

With some other top players I'm part of a company trying to put on events in Europe, especially Germany, but also Poland, Austria, Russia. There's so much talent coming out of the Far East now, and we want the same thing in Europe. — John Higgins

I said to the German Ambassador that, as long as there was only a dispute between Austria and Serbia alone, I did not feel entitled to intervene; but that, directly it was a matter between Austria and Russia, it became a question of the peace of Europe, which concerned us all. — Edward Grey

In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization. — Edward Grey

That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria. — Edward Grey

I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus every night, to the point of having her buses shipped from Austria to Australia so she can tour the way she sees fit. I used one of her buses once - an honor. — Henry Rollins

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