Top 125 Hungary Quotes & Sayings

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 needs Russia.

Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries.

Hungary has no raw materials and no major energy sources; we have some agricultural background. So what we produce here in Hungary is the result of our labor and minds, and then we have to sell it to the world. If we are not able to do that, if we are not innovative enough, if we are not modern and open enough, we can't do that.

I was sure after the accident when in hospital in Hungary that I was not in the position not to lose any races.

The fact that refugees traveled through six other countries, like former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, is because they like our social benefits. They like our welfare state. They know which country to pick. They're not going to stay in Hungary or in Estonia. They come to Germany, to Holland. And people sense that those are not the real refugees. And our government has spent billions of euros on them, and the Dutch people know.

Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.

Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.

Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

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.

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.

It was a bit of a surprise for us that we had problems in Hungary. But in reality, I think the car could have been pretty competitive with a trouble-free race.

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.

Hungary is against the export of democracy and opposes migration.

Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

In the oldest chronicles of the times conserved in Hungary, reports will be found of Gypsy music, but never of any other, either Magyar, Slavic or Jewish.

There's prejudice and poverty in Hungary as there is in every country.

My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

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.

We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary. They want a gradual coup. If Orbán stayed in power in Hungary or if Kaczynski were to win an election in our country, it would be dangerous. Both men have an authoritarian idea of government; democracy is merely a façade.

The Democrats' foreign policy is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. The migration and foreign policy advocated by the Republican candidate, Mr. Trump, is good for Europe and vital for Hungary.

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.

The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.

A single party is ruling in Hungary, but democracy and the freedom of speech are still in place.

Hungary will stop at nothing when it comes to protecting its citizens.

The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.

Lawyers are like that famous vampire-bat, said to exist in Hungary, which seizes on a creature, and never lets go while there is blood left.

Donald Trump has made it clear that he regards Hungary highly.

I went to see Roma people in Hungary, so I could understand them.

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.

Hungary we know it's a difficult track, it's one of the most physical tracks.

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

My mother was a skier who represented Hungary in the 1936 Olympics, and she was very health-conscious.

An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.

I used my talent as a speaker giving lectures to young people at schools in Hungary and I speak against hatred and anti-Semitism.

If the world sees that we can defend our borders... then no one will try to come to Hungary illegally.

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.

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.

We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.

My mother left Hungary as a refugee, and she is not nostalgic for the life that she had back in Hungary, and yet Cubans certainly want the economic opportunity in the United States, but they're desperately homesick for the culture that they left behind.

The foreign policy of the Democrats is bad for Europe and deadly for Hungary. In contrast, the foreign policy of the Republicans and proclaimed by presidential candidate Trump is good for Europe and means life for Hungary.

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.

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know theyre different countries.

There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.

The village of Polgardi is a dusty roadside settlement northeast of Lake Balaton, a resort area in western Hungary popular with German tourists.

In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

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.

I admit I have a Hungarian temper. Why not? I am from Hungary. We are descendants of Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun.

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

Hungary is now on the brink of becoming a neo-fascist state.

I fearthat both dictators [Hitler and Mussolini] think their present methods are succeeding because of the gains they have made in Albania, Hungary and Yugoslavia.

The troblemakers in Hungary are the Jews... they demoralize our country and they are the leaders of the revolutionary gang that is torturing Hungary.

In Hungary, acting is a profession. In America, it is a decision.

Extremism is always potentially dangerous, but in Hungary's political reality, Jobbik and the other far-right parties have no chance of having a major influence.

To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.

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?