Hungarian Quotes
36 quotes by 28 authors
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In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children…
— Marshall Fritz
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Fashion is more about taste than money - you have to understand your body and tailor clothes to your needs; it's all about the fit.…
— Carmen Dell'Orefice
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It’s not enough to have talent. You also have to be Hungarian.
— Robert Capa
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But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.
— Gyorgy Ligeti
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I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men…
— Heinrich Himmler
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I was invited to join the newly established Central Chemical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1954 and was able to establish…
— George Andrew Olah
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I grew up between the two world wars and received a rather solid general education, the kind middle class children enjoyed in a country whose…
— George Andrew Olah
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We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal†and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.†It…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply…
— George Bernard Shaw
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His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old…
— Bela Bartok
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You know, Italian-Hungarian - no matter how linear and cool I look on the outside, I have all that energy trying to find its way…
— Carmen Dell'Orefice
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This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
— Joseph Brodsky
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Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive,…
— Emile M. Cioran
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It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments'…
— Elie Wiesel
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In some ways I believe music is the more convincing communicator of ideas than words. For instance, we can hear of Kordaly and Bartok and…
— Leonard Slatkin
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It's true, some senior Hungarian writers are not known for their laughter. There is a strong Germanic influence - an attitude that if it's enjoyable…
— Tibor Fischer
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One of my proudest achievements is that when an authoritative book about Hungarian literature came out about a decade ago, there was a little article…
— Tibor Fischer
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I am not 100% English, I am actually part Italian and even part Hungarian. Therefore I feel very much part of Europe both in my…
— Bruce Bennett
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'Zolten' is a common Hungarian name, it's my wife's maiden name and most importantly, it's the name of Dracula's dog.
— Penn Jillette
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I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving…
— Dylan Moran
Who Wrote These Hungarian Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 36 Hungarian Quotes, led by these top contributors: