(544 quotes found)
“We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.”
Dan Quayle
“When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.”
Prince Metternich
“Who do I call if I want to call Europe?”
Henry Kissinger
“To enter Europe, you must have a valid passport with a photograph of yourself in which you look like you are being booked on charges of soliciting sheep.”
Dave Barry
“It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe.”
Adolf Hitler
“The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime”
Edward Grey
“If Europe had known as much of Islam, as Muslims knew of Christendom, in those days, those mad, adventurous, occasionally chivalrous and heroic, but utterly fanatical outbreak known as the Crusades could not have taken place, for they were based on a”
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
“A hack writer who would not have been considered a fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven "sure-fire" literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.”
William Faulkner
“If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.”
Tony Blair
“PILGRIM, n. A traveler that is taken seriously. A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience.”
Ambrose Bierce