Words matter. These are the best Hungary Quotes from famous people such as Lajos Kossuth, Viktor Orban, Lidia Bastianich, Petra Collins, Imre Kertesz, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.
Do you agree that the European Union should be able to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
I was born in Allied-controlled Pola. At the end of World War II, the victorious wartime Allied powers negotiated the details of peace treaties and borders with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland. The Paris Treaty was signed on February 10, 1947. I was born a few days later.
The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.
My mom had been a script supervisor in Hungary, but you can’t just jump into that in Canada without knowing any English. She worked retail jobs and raised my sister and me while learning English.
I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy – and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country’s society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.
We can set it as a goal that taxes on labor would be even lower in Hungary… that we will have the cheapest energy in Europe, and that all those who want to work would have a job.
In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.
I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.
The death penalty question should be put on the agenda in Hungary.
Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they’re different countries.
Donald Trump has made it clear that he regards Hungary highly.
Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens.
Hungary needs Russia.
Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.
In Hungary, if homosexuals would like to live together, they can do so under the civil code. But what we call marriage is exclusively for one man and one woman. We are a Christian country. That’s a historical fact.
I wasn’t cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.
There’s prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.
The idea of ignoring your past, only to confront it later in life, is a familiar experience whether you come here from Hungary or French Canada or Ireland.
Trump’s pronounced anti-immigrant stance is reminiscent of both Le Pen in France and Orban in Hungary, although he is far from alone in taking such positions in much of today’s Republican Party.
My father’s father fled a pogrom in Russia in the early 20th century and was welcomed to the United States. So was my stepmother, who escaped as a young girl from Communist Hungary in 1950.
To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
Because my name is Hungarian, everyone assumed I knew about Hungary. I didn’t. They also assumed that if you knew about Hungary, you also knew about the rest of Eastern Europe.
My mother was a skier who represented Hungary in the 1936 Olympics, and she was very health-conscious.
I was sure after the accident when in hospital in Hungary that I was not in the position not to lose any races.
If the world sees that we can defend our borders… then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.
It’s one thing to be writing in South or Latin America, where, except for Brazil, every country, however small and hard to find on a map, speaks Spanish, but quite another to be writing in, say, Hungary, a landlocked nation of 10 million people, with a language that very few people outside Hungary can read or speak.
My three-year ride by horse from Mongolia to Hungary was the most difficult, most revealing, and interesting of any of my travels. Travelling by horse, you’re far more engaged and dependent on the land and other people than by any other means.
When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuania. When I left, it was Hungary. It is difficult to say where I come from.
The village of Polgardi is a dusty roadside settlement northeast of Lake Balaton, a resort area in western Hungary popular with German tourists.
My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives.
Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.
I will be the personal bodyguard for every investment in my city. If Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary can transform, then so can Ukraine.
From hearty beet-red borscht and soft, pliable pierogi dumplings to dill-scented pickles and hearty braises, the food of Eastern Europe – that is The Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Georgia and their close neighbours – is tasty stuff, but it’s never really taken off in Australia in any significant way.
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
Plain white T-shirts do it for me every time. You can spend anything from £3 to £50 on a T-shirt, but I’ve bought some great ones from H&M, as well as shelling out on Duffer Of St George and a Polish label I discovered while filming ‘Robin Hood’ in Hungary called Scotch And Soda.
