The Swiss are inspired hotel-keepers. Some centuries since, when thestranger strayed into one oftheir valleys, their simple forefathers would kill him and share out the little money he might have about him. Now they know better. They keep him alive and writing cheques.

-Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley ne¤  e Pierrepoint
  The Right Place.

The most perfect of Swiss clockmakers.

-Stravinsky, Igor Fedorovich
Of Ravel. Quoted in R Nichols Ravel (1977).

   Toronto is a kind of New York operated by the Swiss.

-Ustinov, Sir PeterAlexander
Quoted byJohn Bentley Mays in the Globe and Mail,1 Aug1987.