Quote by R.G. Waldeck

“Well, the Romanies have been around for five thousand years, longer than any nation. And why? Because we know how to survive. The Aryans…

— Martin Cruz Smith

“Tell me,' he asked, with some embarassment, as we strolled along: 'you're a bloody German, aren't you?' 'Oh, no. I'm Hungarian.' 'Hungarian?' 'Hungarian.' 'What's…

— Antal Szerb

“Czechs are laughing beasts.”

— Reinhard Heydrich

“It was during Latin that the Austro-Hungarians arrived with their dogs and zombies to kill everyone at the Eden College for Young Ladies.”

— David Wake

“No matter what happens, good or bad, Romanians will embrace it with hard-core cynicism.”

— Maria Elena Sandovici

“Stupid Romanian bloodsucker. He was lucky I hadn't bestowed another exalted scar on his imperial body.”

— Beth Fantaskey

“Rumania, the German pointed out, a much greater percentage of business was in Jewish hands than in Germany and while in Germany there were…

— R.G. Waldeck

“In the great world outside Hungary events were taking place that would change all their lives: the uprising in Russia, the dispute over Crete,…

— Miklós Bánffy

“More than ever, Romanians are suffering from back problems: back from Spain, back from Italy and back from France.”

— Cristian Calin

“Disappointment for Slavs is always more poetic and profound, as well as more frequent, than it is for Americans.”

— Stuart Rojstaczer

Most Hungarians know what it was to live in a dictatorship; some are old enough to have known both fascism and communism. No one…

— Tibor Fischer

“In August, the Hungarians cut the barbed wire at their border with Austria, creating the first hole in the Eastern Bloc.”

— Anna Funder