Vienna Quotes

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

I set out to become the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. Alas, for the illusions of youth: as a horseman, I was never really first-rate.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.

Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.

After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.

Well I live in Vienna with my wife and son, and I teach in Hamburg, there will be no changes in that respect.

The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.

I employ 20 people in Vienna. The other 130 coworkers are pilots and flight companions. The Overhead is limited with me. Reduces naturally the costs of my fliers.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

In 1882 I was in Vienna, where I met an American whom I had known in the States. He said: 'Hang your chemistry and electricity! If you want to make a pile of money, invent something that will enable these Europeans to cut each others' throats with greater facility.'

If you walk into a coffee shop in 1903 Vienna, you might find at the same table the artist Gustav Klimt, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky and possibly Adolf Hitler, who lived in Vienna at the same time.

Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, none of them were born in Vienna. They all moved there. It became a magnet, but what made it magnetized in the first place? There has to be a seed there. In the case of Vienna of about 1780, it was this deep-seated love of music.

[During fee negotiations for singing in Vienna:] I'm not interested in money, but it must be more than anyone else gets.

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

He's going to audition for the Vienna Boys' Choir!

The coffee shop played a big role in Vienna of 1900. Rents were sky high, housing was difficult to come by, your apartment probably wasn't heated, and so you went to the coffee shop. You went to the coffee shop because it was warm, because it was great Viennese coffee, and you went for the conversation and the company.

The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.