Vienna Quotes
66 quotes by 58 authors
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When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
— Karl von Frisch
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There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of…
— Terry Eagleton
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You know, it's very clear, as one looks back on history again of the Cold War that, following the crisis in Cuba, following the Khrushchev…
— Alexander Haig
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I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a…
— John Irving
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But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary…
— Tony Kushner
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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
— Hedy Lamarr
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Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a…
— Viggo Mortensen
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The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version…
— Stephen Fry
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And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of…
— Leonard Cohen
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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
— Billy Joel
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I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Do you want to go back to Vienna?†he said. Alec didn’t answer, just stared into space. “Or we could go somewhere else,†said Magnus.…
— Cassandra Clare
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Vienna, to me it was the tuning fork for the entire world. Saying the word Vienna was like striking a tuning fork and then listening…
— Sándor Márai
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In 1979, when I was toddler, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and my whole family fled to Vienna, Virginia. Far from home, my parents were determined…
— Azita Ghanizada
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I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.
— Romy Schneider
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When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said…
— Otto Preminger
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Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.
— Frederic Chopin
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I was in Vienna in August 1968 for a meeting of the International Federation of Multiple Sclerosis Societies, of which I was co-founder, and we…
— Shirley Temple
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In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All…
— Rose George
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