Pont - Switzerland

Switzerland

  • Du Pont, Switzerland, a Swiss hamlet that is part of the commune of L'Abbaye

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Famous quotes containing the word switzerland:

    “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 (1874–1946)

    “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 (1915–84)

    “I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)