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.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  In the Toronto Star Weekly, 4 Mar.

   I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

-Smith, Rev Sydney
  Letter to Lord Holland, [August]. In The Letters of Sydney Smith edited by Nowell C Smith (1953), vol.1.

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshedöthey produced Michelangelo, Leonardo daVinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

-Welles, (George) Orson
  Harry Lime's speech to Holly Martins as he leaves the great wheel,TheThird Man.This phrase was added to the script by Welles who played Harry Lime.