100 Sweden Quotes

Following is our list of sweden quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about stockholm.

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Famous Sweden Quotes

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism. — Julian Assange

Let's just say, I went to Sweden for a reason, to make music. — Logan Paul

All cheaters shop for Swedish discount furniture. — Joe Gatto

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton. — Stellan Skarsgard

Iceland, I'm in love with that country, the people are incredible. — Kit Harington

Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it — Barack Obama

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there. - Lasse Hallstrom

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there. — Lasse Hallstrom

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. — Larry David

I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots. — Joel Kinnaman

Ikea products should come free with happy meals. — Steve Fowler

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. - Steven Wright

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. — Steven Wright

I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible — Raoul Wallenberg

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. — Ernest Hemingway

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists. — Diego Maradona

Short Sweden Quotes

  • Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell. — James J. Hill
  • We grow old more through indolence, than through age. — Christina, Queen of Sweden
  • Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. — Christina, Queen of Sweden
  • I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women — Christina, Queen of Sweden
  • People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you. — Avicii
  • I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services. — Daniel Ek
  • The Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden , the old Sweden will not return. — Mona Sahlin
  • It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye. — Mats Sundin
  • Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe. — Goran Persson
  • In Sweden, we have what is called 'The Finnish Disease.' It consists of not talking much, or at all. — Hannes Holm

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When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation. — Seamus Heaney

I follow Rick Falkvinge, who founded the Swedish Pirate party and was one of the very early adopters of Bitcoin. — Max Keiser

Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more. — Abigail Van Buren

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees. — Hans Rosling

His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish. — Charles XII of Sweden

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders. — Eva Green

Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it. — Neil Gaiman

I'm a big fan of TIËSTO, and SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them. — Sayings

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. — Chuck Palahniuk

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today. — Giorgos Seferis

Stockholm Quotes

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country. — Guglielmo Marconi

The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet. — Andy Warhol

Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished. — Karin Dreijer Andersson

Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome. — Christopher Hitchens

Did vampirism encourage Stockholm syndrome? — MaryJanice Davidson

I miss being in my home country; here, I'm always a foreigner. America is, of course, built of people who are not from here. But going home, even just landing at Arlanda, the Stockholm airport, I think, "This is where I'm from. These people are my people." — Bill Skarsgard

I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you. — Ingrid Betancourt

I tried to find myself and become a happy person without all the drugs and alcohol. And then I got back to Stockholm and I got pissed one night and had to sing. — Gustav Ejstes

I live a bit outside of Stockholm and I almost never go into town. I can live anywhere, I think. — Karin Dreijer Andersson

I'm based in Stockholm and I train at Nexus Fighter Centre, it's my club and my head coach Andreas Michael but for two weeks now I went to Vegas to train with Team Alliance with coach Eric Del Fierro, Phil Davis and top level guys. I had top level sparring so I'm more than ready. — Alexander Gustafsson

Finland Quotes

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do. — Renny Harlin

Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive! — Trip Hawkins

Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States. — Harri Holkeri

The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full. — Tarja Halonen

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden. — Harri Holkeri

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s. — Renny Harlin

In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex. — Harri Holkeri

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here. — Renny Harlin

He saved the production a tremendous amount. Now they did the scene where Omar is on the horse and he's in the deep snow, they went to Finland to do that. That scene they went to Finland for a week. I wasn't around then. — Rod Steiger

I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland. - Renny Harlin

I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland. — Renny Harlin

People Writing About Sweden

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Read quotes by Christina, Queen of Sweden

Christina, Queen of Sweden
quotes on love, life and education

21 206
Read quotes by Julian Assange

Julian Assange
quotes on truth, war

204 1279
Read quotes by Logan Paul

Logan Paul
quotes on faith, love and hope

89 1
Read quotes by Joe Gatto

Joe Gatto
quotes on leadership, education and love

60 1
Read quotes by Stellan Skarsgard

Stellan Skarsgard

30 98
Read quotes by Kit Harington

Kit Harington
quotes on love, jonathan ross and jimmy kimmel

28 68

More Sweden Quotes

This world came crashing down in the catastrophic year 1914, which was not only the year of the outbreak of World War I, but the year that the world’s major economies went off of the gold standard and replaced it with unsound government money. Only Switzerland and Sweden, who remained neutral during World War I, were to remain on a gold standard into the 1930s. — Saifedean Ammous

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

Who came up with ethno-nationalism? Is swedes caring about Sweden ethno-nationalism? FU! You know, people have a right to be in their country without somebody saying Oh, that's just blood and soil like from the nazis. — Eric Weinstein

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 made the key discovery for CRISPR there, while living in my scientific monastery in northern Sweden. At the same time, I was very interested in detective stories, searching for enigmas. — Emmanuelle Charpentier

America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay! — Matt Groening

I love Sweden. In Sweden, the women are just so hot. Their vibe is so amazing. You feel like every girl out there was genetically altered to just be hot. I did not see one ugly woman out there, it was just a line of continuously hot girls. — Kid Cudi

What works for Sweden wouldn't work for France or Germany or Italy. In a small state, you can reach outside for many of your activities. In a homogeneous culture, they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to achieve commonly held goals. But "common goals" are much harder to come by in larger, more heterogeneous populations. — Milton Friedman

Thank God for the tsunami, and thank God that two thousand dead Swedes are fertilizing the ground over there [in Asia]. How many of these two thousand, do you suppose, were fags and dykes? This is how the Lord deals with His enemies. And the Lord has got some enemies. And Sweden heads the list. You filthy Swedes. You filthy Swedes! — Fred Phelps

We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one. — Martina Hingis

As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him. — Christina, Queen of Sweden

My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish. — Fran Lebowitz

I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease. — Bill Toomey

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father. — Joel Kinnaman

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world. — Paul Robeson

I'm a photographer and retoucher from Sweden. I use photography as a way of collecting material to realize the ideas in my mind. — Erik Johansson

Football is much harder if you don't have the ball. — Sven-Goran Eriksson

I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe. — Gore Vidal

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden. — Carl D. Anderson

When you think of a safe and solid arbitration place, you think of Switzerland, Sweden, Canada. Those attributes may be associated with clichés, but I think they resonate with a lot of people and they are a solid base for Canada to co-operate and help others. — Christine Lagarde

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people. — Oliver Goldsmith

We know that the abilities of European Union member states are not infinite. As such, it makes little sense for us to criticize each other.All of us accepted Sweden's decision to introduce border controls too. And that is a country that was for decades the most open to immigration. — Wolfgang Schauble

Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic... being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral. — Alan Coren

We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European. — Jack Charlton

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it. — Alicia Vikander

America became a great civilization thanks to a culture based on the value of having to earn almost everything an American got in life. As it abandons this value, it will become a mediocre civilization. And eventually it will not be America. It will be a large Sweden, and just as influential as the smaller one. — Dennis Prager

Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways. — Christina, Queen of Sweden

France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud. — Nicolas Sarkozy

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden. — Alexander Skarsgard

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour. — Wanda Jackson

I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet. — Drew Curtis

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