Switzerland

   I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

—Smith, Rev Sydney

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

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