80 Danish Quotes
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Famous Danish Quotes
Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke. — Rene Redzepi
Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts. — John Oliver
Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam — Kristin Cashore
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine. — Peter Ustinov
Sunday, the day for the language of leisure. — Elfriede Jelinek
They are bearcrawls ... a bearclaw is a donut — Jillian Michaels
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English? — Marlene Dietrich
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. — Doug Larson
When a foreigner swears in his own language, we are not offended. — Albanian Proverbs
A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse. — Frederick the Great
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary. — Booker T. Washington
If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes? — Steven Wright
Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake. — Marian Burros
You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one. — Compton Mackenzie
Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair. — William Dunbar
Short Danish Quotes
- Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer. — Clementine Paddleford
- The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness. — Georg Brandes
- He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish. — Georg Brandes
- My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year. — Ted Shackelford
- Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way. — Sayings
- A road to a friend's house is never long. — Ann Richards
- A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish. — Chevy Chase
- I used to love Danish. My father used to make a Boston cream pie. You never see that anymore. — Christopher Walken
- Atlantic puffins starve to death so that Danish chickens can feast on their fish. — Paul Watson
- I represent all people who are citizens of the Danish nation. — Margrethe II of Denmark
Denmark Quotes
If Americans want to live the American dream, they should go to Denmark. — Richard G. Wilkinson
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind. — William Shakespeare
Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul. — Isak Dinesen
We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money. — Fredrik Bajer
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. — William Shakespeare
As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind. — Pranab Mukherjee
I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch. — Simon Kuper
Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. — Maya Lin
When I hear the word independent I reach for my revolver. At this point, what the hell does that mean? The English Patient is an independent film... Hootie and the Blowfish are alternative music. I'm the Queen of Denmark. I don't know what it means anymore. — Jim Jarmusch
We have the opportunity to change Denmark - that opportunity must be seized. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt
People Writing About Danish
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Georg Brandes |
58 | 192 |
 Rene Redzepi |
38 | 266 |
 John Oliver |
95 | 744 |
 Kristin Cashore |
226 | 305 |
 Peter Ustinov |
101 | 1020 |
 Elfriede Jelinek |
32 | 185 |
More Danish Quotes
There is no pill for longevity or a fountain of youth. The Danish Twin Study established that only about 30% of how long the average person lives is dictated by our genes, the other 80% is dictated by our lifestyle and environment. — Dan Buettner
I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime. — Timothy Garton Ash
With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans. — Jay Inslee
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. — Virginia Madsen
Did you ever notice, when you are sitting at a red light, that when the person in front of you pulls up a couple of inches, you are compelled to move up too? Do we really think we are making progress toward our destination? "Whew, I thought we would be late, but now that I am nine inches closer, I can stop for coffee and a danish!" — Jerry Seinfeld
Many foreigners have asked me how we made the Danish style. And I've answered that it...was rather a continuous process of purification, and for me of simplification, to cut down to the simplest possible elements of four legs, a seat and combined top rail and arm rest. — Hans Wegner
American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care. — R. W. Apple, Jr.
I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts. — Gene Simmons
We have been in recess since July, and during that time there has been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought to be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role. — Tony Benn
Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make." — Eric Sevareid
Silver is the best material we have. And silver has this wonderful shine like moonlight ... a light taken straight from a Danish summer's night. When covered by dew, silver can look like magical mist. — Georg Jensen
The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as equals they made a point: we are integrating you into the Danish tradition of satire because you are part of our society, not strangers. The cartoons are including, rather than excluding, Muslims. — Flemming Rose
Denmark (also called Norway) is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane. — Dave Barry
I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman. — George MacDonald Fraser
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others. — David Mamet
It wasn't until a year later, when a young woman with Danish pastries on either side of her head knelt down in front of a walking dustbin to record an important message, that love truly came to town." - p 16 [re: Princess Leia] — Simon Pegg
At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard. — Morton Feldman
Recently , crowds of thousands gathered throughout the Muslim world - burning European embassies, issuing threats, taking hostages, even killing people - in protest over twelve cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad that were first published in a Danish newspaper. When was the last atheist riot? — Sam Harris
They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly, and they themselves a story, that Icelandic history and culture and DNA leaves us very well-suited to being investment bankers. — Michael Lewis
People don't think of their office as a workplace anymore. They think of it as a stationary store with Danish. You want to get your pastry, your envelopes, your supplies, your toilet paper, six cups of coffee, and you go home. — Jerry Seinfeld
I have to admit, I am aware of my Latin roots now. In the past, people couldn't place me. They thought that I was Danish or English or French. They never got that I am Italian. I'm not typical, maybe because my visual education was very mixed. There was a lot of London in my aesthetic: The Face, i-D, British music, and a lot of British fashion . . . But I really enjoy this contrast. I can go from Lady Gaga to Brian Eno in a split second. — Italo Zucchelli
Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment. — Arne Jacobsen
Humor is a good way in general to get people together, I think. Of course, Danish humor is more ironic and sarcastic altogether. — Henrik Vibskov
I mean, in the foreword to Impro in Denmark is by Søren Iversen, who I taught long ago, he was a Danish director, after he left. He said he'd read about [Eugeny] Vakhtangov. I'm a fan of his. When he heard that Vakhtangov had lots of tricks, he thought this was very bad. But when he came to be my student, he realised it was very good to have a lot of tricks. You saw some this morning. — Keith Johnstone
Under the constitution, as the Danish queen I am bound to the Lutheran faith, but that does not exclude people of other faiths. — Margrethe II of Denmark
The Reformation was immensely important for all of Danish culture. — Margrethe II of Denmark
Luther exerted a strong influence on Denmark. Suddenly Danish theologians were preaching in Danish and translating the Bible into Danish. — Margrethe II of Denmark
Many young Danish theologians went to Wittenberg starting in 1517, listened to Luther's theses and, in 1536, brought the Reformation to our country. This is why the Danes, unlike the people of many countries in Eastern and Central Europe, became Lutherans and not Calvinists. — Margrethe II of Denmark
I think people couldn't really put me in [one race]. I wasn't Mexican, I wasn't white, I wasn't black, I wasn't Asian... I wasn't anything, and I didn't really fit into anybody's group. My dad is Mexican, and my mom is French and Danish. — Jessica Alba
I always say I have a Danish passport, but I am a New Yorker at heart. — Nicolas Winding Refn
I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America. — Nicolas Winding Refn
I've talked a lot about the discipline and high, high skills of the British actors as seen from my Danish point of view. But I also have to say that Peter is unusually intelligent, humble and a good friend to everyone. — Lone Scherfig
My father was working on his Ph.D. on Danish choral music - the Danish choral music of Carl Nielsen - so over there to do research. — Pete Docter
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