Hungarian Quotes: top 40 famous quotes about Hungarian

Hungarian Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Hungarian quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising. — Joseph Brodsky

I was raised on science as other people are raised on God, or Gods, or the crocodile. — Lily King

Stencil had called from a Hungarian coffee shop on York Avenue known as Hungarian Coffee Shop — Thomas Pynchon

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 me such a stir. — Dylan Moran

Because when you love someone very much, it's difficult to learn to share her with someone else. — Fredrik Backman

From a young kid, I was quite interested in religion. — Russell Crowe

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian. — Herbie Mann

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating. — Melody Beattie

I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I. — Eric Kandel

The style of mustache I have is called a Hungarian, and you need a certain type of viscosity in the wax to make it work. — Justin Hawkins

There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects. — Claes Oldenburg

I set free the phantoms of my imagination. — Frigyes Karinthy

For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on. — Garth Risk Hallberg

I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo. — J.K. Rowling

But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people. — Gyorgy Ligeti

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 through life. — Carmen Dell'Orefice

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up. — J.K. Rowling

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts. — Alfred Brendel

That I want nothing more than to put you on your back, on this table, and show you what it's like to really get fucked. — Karina Halle

In this ocean of hours I'm all the time drinking ... — Bob Dylan

Southampton have always been at the top, apart from the seasons when they weren't — Ray Parlour

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there. — Everett Dirksen

[He] mumbled something about how being a Hungarian meant wanting nothing and being prepared for anything. Or was it the other way around. — Jessica Anthony

Every Hungarian wishes to die an elegant gentleman — Igor Janke

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. — Gyorgy Ligeti

I had a novice's hunger for history, but also a novice's inability to envision it. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception. — Tibor Fischer

It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian. — Robert Capa

Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been. — Frigyes Karinthy

(Hungarian ... ) the only tongue the devil respects — Chico Buarque

When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration. — Tibor Fischer

I like wearing my wedding ring, it's nice. — Jerry O'Connell

I really think I'd be better at, like, advanced napping techniques. — Tui T. Sutherland

No one can convince a man of his erring ways as persuasively as experience. — Richelle E. Goodrich

It is not the business of a Queen to be human. — Antal Szerb

'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

The road up and the road down are one and the same.
Heraclitus — H.I.M.

I look better with a tan, but I've never gone the fake route. I don't need to - I have good foreign genes: half Spanish, half Hungarian. — Anton Du Beke

My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties. — Anton Du Beke

One of my principal childhood memories is hearing one of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies waft throughout the house. — Katharine Graham