Argentina

​"One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it."
Robert Duvall

Australia

"I would rather have bowel surgery in the woods with a stick. If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistible currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback."
Bill Bryson, ​In A Sunburned Country

​Austria

"Then she stood on tiptoe and kissed him sweetly on the lips. 'I promise you a love affair with a sun-bathed Austrian princess beyond anything you imagine - in love, in beauty, in intensity. A love that will power you to the end of our time together. you are going to be a fortunate man'."
Paul A. Myers, ​Vienna 1934: Betrayal at the Ballplatz

Canada

"To survive the Canadian winter, one needs a body of brass, eyes of glass, and blood made of brandy."
Louis-Armand de Lom d'Arce de Lahontan

​England

"This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."
William Shakespeare, Richard II

​France

"How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?"
Charles de Gaulle

​Germany

"A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for."
Sir Kingsley Amis

​Italy

"We are all pilgrims who seek Italy."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

New Zealand

"New Zealand is not a small country but a large village."
Peter Jackson

​Portugal

"For each mouth, a different soup."
Portuguese Proverb

Slovenia

​"We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all."
Oliver Tambo

South Africa

​"We all belong to South Africa, and South Africa belongs to us all."
Oliver Tambo


Spain

​"I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!"
George Orwell, ​Homage to Catalonia


Turkey

​"It's such a shame that we know so little about our own country, that we can't find it in our hearts to love our own kind."
Orhan Pamuk, ​Snow