- It’s the Romans when they take their stand at Carnuntum. It’s Attila the Hun standing outside the walls of Tatabánya. It’s the Magyars at the falls of Visegrád, ready to ride down and flood the West.” – Imre Kertész, Fatelessness (1975)
- “Hungarians can still be like a razor blade: thin, tough, silent.” – Péter Esterházy, Celestial Harmonies (2000)
- “Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East.” – M. John Harrison, Nova Swing (2006)
- “Hungary is a nation of water. Our poets are sick with it, our novelists are drenched in it.” – Gyula Krúdy, Life is a Dream (1941)
- “Budapest is a fascinating city, a city of fusion, on the frontier between East and West. Hungary itself is like that in fact.” – Alan Furst, Night Soldiers (1988)
- “The greatest Hungarian beauty of all was that of Budapest.” – Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon (1940)
- “The city might have been Thebes or Argos, with its own river passing through the countryside to plunge into the heart of its bright streets, its white houses with gabled roofs, its Bridge of Chains spanning the Danube, old as the city itself, yet purple as if newly built.” – Antal Szerb, Journey by Moonlight (1937)
- “Hungary, for me, has truly become the country of the thousand-year kingdom.” – József Sándor, The Road Home (2016)
- “A language borders on nothing.” – Péter Nádas, Parallel Stories (2005)
- “Hungary, land of lean, hawk-nosed men, of icy they-are-not-playing-with-a-full-deck women.” – Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence (2008)
WANDERLIST: Ten great travel quotes about Hungary
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