Alps Quotations

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.

You don't want to spend much time in Germany or even France in the winter unless you're in the Alps.

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

Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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