Dear Quote by Kingsley Amis

The nature of Scandinavians is that they don't talk so much, there will be these dark secrets, and most things are under-communicated.

— Jo Nesbo

The Swedes got there first - their dramas were always the darkest and most upsetting, and we used to love them when I was…

— Kim Bodnia

I'm actually in love with all of Scandinavia.

— Kevin Parker

Scandinavia can be quite fashionable.

— Sigrid

Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This…

— Camilla Lackberg

Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity…

— Christopher Heyerdahl

I don't know whether it's a Nordic thing, but men in Iceland are very locked-up, very quiet. They hardly ever express emotion.

— Olafur Darri Olafsson

“Norwegians were not exactly what you might call a cultured people - Nikolai Loeb”

— Jo Nesbø

My wife is Swedish, so I'm familiar with the Scandinavian kind of odd humor. It's very dark and very deadpan.

— Cory Barlog

Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little…

— Joel Kinnaman

The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.

— Bayard Taylor

I really hated being the Norwegian girl in every single conversation in Australia, so I tried to make my Norwegian-ness invisible, speaking like whoever…

— Jenny Hval