(52 quotes found)
“Swiss Cheese is a rip-off! It's the only cheese I can bite into and miss!”
Mitch Hedberg
“Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.”
Charles Dickens
“In life there are no winners, only assholes with Swiss Bank Accounts.”
Matthew Lotti
“As the Swiss inscription says: Sprechen ist silbern, Schweigen ist golden, - "Speech is silver, Silence is golden;" or, as I might rather express it, Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity”
Thomas Carlyle
“The train passed fruit farms and clean villages and Swiss cycling in kerchiefs, calendar scenes that you admire for a moment before feeling an urge to move on to a new month”
Paul Theroux
“The only nation I've ever been tempted to feel really racist about are the Swiss - a whole country of phobic hand washers living in a giant Barclays Bank”
Jonathan Raban
“The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress”
Dalton Trumbo
“I was born in Canada, went to school in Colombia and Denmark, and have worked for American, French and Swiss companies. So not much Scottish blood. But the good news is that I'm not English either!”
Clara Furse
“There are enormous differences between Swiss Jews and those in Germany and Austria, due to the lack of persecution in Switzerland during the war. The sheer continuity of Swiss Jewry is unique and has fostered a different mindset.”
Yves Kugelmann
“The yen remains the preferred funding currency for carry trades. The Swiss franc was the alternative and now it's become less attractive.”
Boris Schlossberg
