| Quote | Country | Quoter |
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| 'It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma...' | |
| '____ is only a geographical expression.' | |
| 'Poor ____, so far from God and so close to the United States.' | |
| '____ is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.' | |
| 'How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?' | |
| 'A nation of shopkeepers.' | |
| 'In ____ they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!' | |
| 'In France all writers are important...and in ____ you have to explain what a writer is.' | |
| 'When a pile of cups is tottering on the edge of a table and you warn that they will crash to the ground, in ____ you are blamed when that happens.' | |
| 'If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that ____ had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.' | |
| 'A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.' | |
| 'In Turkey it is always 1952, in Malaysia 1937...It is always last year in Australia and next week in ____.' | |
| 'The women of ____ count their age from their marriage, not from their birth.' | |
| 'If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved ____.' | |
| 'Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of ____ is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers.' | |
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| 'I think we should take Iraq and ____ and combine them into one country and call it Irate.' | |
| 'We have on our hands a sick man, a very sick man.' | |
| 'In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In ____ they throw themselves.' | |
| 'At the Olympics in ____, every color was represented...and that was just the drinking water.' | |
| '____ is one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.' | |
| '____ has never been a melting-pot; more like a tossed salad.' | |
| 'But nothing in ____ is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.' | |
| '____ wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.' | |
| 'Beer is _____'s national drink and the national weakness is another beer.' | |
| 'If my theory of relativity is proven successful, ____ will claim me as a (demonym)...should my theory prove untrue... ____ will declare that I am a Jew.' | |
| 'Rich in wool, it is yet without cloth, grows flax in overabundance, and yet imports linen from abroad, favors all foreign goods and belittles its domestic products...' | |
| 'Realizing that they never will be a world power, ____ has decided to settle for being a world nuisance.' | |
| 'The problem with ____ is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.' | |
| '____ is such a terra incognita that Tibet is practically Coney Island by comparison.' | |
| 'In ____, the living were subordinate to the dead.' | |
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