Top 12 Alps Quotes - Quoted Daily

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

Mark Twain

Men, Glaciers, Alps

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.152, Courier Corporation

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Elton John

Thinking, Flying, Alps

"Sixty things for Sir Elton's 60th", news.bbc.co.uk. March 23, 2007.

If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Yodeling, Naysayers, Alps

Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise.

Alexander Pope

Alps, Hills, Arise

'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 232

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

Mark Twain

Climbing, People, Alps

Mark Twain (2016). “A Tramp Abroad”, p.246, Xist Publishing

Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.

Johanna Spyri

Grandfather, Earth, Alps

Johanna Spyri (2015). “Heidi (Illustrated Edition): Classic of Children’s Literature”, p.73, e-artnow

There shall be no Alps.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Alps

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

Groucho Marx

Simple, Shoes, Alps

And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

Patricia Hewitt

Party, Engagement, Alps

O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

John Milton

Lakes, Rocks, Alps

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 620

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.

Libba Bray

Couple, Alps, Arguing

Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.68, Simon and Schuster