Quote by Halldór Laxness

They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly,…

— Michael Lewis

“When you visit a Danish company and can't tell the CEO from the office clerk, that's Viking egalitarianism at work.”

— Michael Booth

“Danes are blunt and direct and trusting and secure”

— Helen Russell

“Danes are good at appreciating the small things in life and at making the best of whatever they have. They place emphasis on the…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“Maybe because there are so few Icelanders in the world, we know next to nothing about them. We assume they are more or less…

— Michael Lewis

“Even at their height, the Scandinavian welfare states left the economy to the private sector—which was then taxed at very high rates to pay…

— Tony Judt

Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living…

— Michael Lewis

I had a Viking sense of entitlement to whatever provisions I could plunder.

— Jonathan Franzen

“Flemming Axmark, and Preben Hansen. The Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Copenhagen: Nordisk”

— Nete Schmidt

“If ever I hear again of any lapse from a proper standard of infantile decorum, I shall ask for your transference to a Sub-Centre–preferably…

— Aldous Huxley

“I ate a Danish. Better than eating someone from Finland.”

— Jarod Kintz

It's always good to see that someone can go out of Iceland and do some things.

— Tomas Lemarquis