Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. Ernest Hemingway
Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. F Scott Fitzgerald
I don’t like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters. Oscar Wilde
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland. Sydney Smith
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody. Gertrude Stein
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed – they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock! Orson Welles