Top 44 Best Swedish Sayings

#1. I think Koenigsegg is Swedish for: Oh no, my head has just exploded!

Jeremy Clarkson

Best Swedish Sayings #3001
#2. Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

Stieg Larsson

Best Swedish Sayings #17539
#3. Wherever it's spoken, Gaelic sounds like a combination of Swedish and Hebrew.

Howard Tomb

Best Swedish Sayings #25293
#4. Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.

Malin Akerman

Best Swedish Sayings #28175
#5. John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish

Gareth Barry

Best Swedish Sayings #29998
#6. I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

Lasse Hallstrom

Best Swedish Sayings #48167
#7. The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.

Bayard Taylor

Best Swedish Sayings #67992
#8. Look at this. A barstool, named Sven? Some old Swedish custom, the winter kicks in, weather gets harsh, after a while you find yourself relating to the furniture in ways you didn't expect?

Thomas Pynchon

Best Swedish Sayings #68406
#9. Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

Christopher Heyerdahl

Best Swedish Sayings #92766
#10. I think it's an important thing for a Mexican to say, especially now with the rebellion in Chiapas. Mexico has to confront her Indian face, and yet she refuses to do so. When you turn on Mexican television, it's like watching Swedish TV: everyone is blond.

Richard Rodriguez

Best Swedish Sayings #97889
#11. Green Gables has been translated into Swedish and Dutch. My copy of the Swedish edition always gives me the inestimable boon of a laugh. The cover design is a full length figure of Anne, wearing a sunbonnet, carrying the famous carpet-bag, and with hair that is literally of an intense scarlet!

L.M. Montgomery

Best Swedish Sayings #107036
#12. I am helpless.
I am stupid, and all I do is want and need things.
My tiny life. My little shit job. My Swedish furniture. I never, no, never told anyone this, but before I met Tyler, I was planning to buy a dog and name it "Entourage."
This is how bad your life can get.

Chuck Palahniuk

Best Swedish Sayings #107406
#13. My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.

Richard Gough

Best Swedish Sayings #116308
#14. I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.

Joel Kinnaman

Best Swedish Sayings #117284
#15. My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

Susan Lucci

Best Swedish Sayings #164337
#16. I stared you chew down your Swedish meatballs. I hope you could see how you chewed my heart then spit it out

Noor Iskandar

Best Swedish Sayings #180690
#17. I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.

Jose Gonzalez

Best Swedish Sayings #185263
#18. My dad was in the Swedish armed forces, he was always reading up on different weapons from the Americans and Soviets. When I was a kid, I was in bed looking at his books, reading about the Red Army. So I was very aware of it. I had an interest in military matters ever since.

Dolph Lundgren

Best Swedish Sayings #185651
#19. I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'

Will Ferrell

Best Swedish Sayings #200283
#20. Swedish democracy is based on a single premise: the Right to Free Speech (R.F.S.).

Stieg Larsson

Best Swedish Sayings #202931
#21. The America to which these Swedish settlers came was a land that needed the hardy qualities they brought. It was not a land that was particularly softhearted towards newcomers, but everyone believed that each should have a fair chance regardless of his origin.

Harry S. Truman

Best Swedish Sayings #204462
#22. A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.

Joshua Lederberg

Best Swedish Sayings #243586
#23. In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams that show up in beer drinking situations consist of guys who have been playing league softball and smell like bus seats.

Dave Barry

Best Swedish Sayings #262907
#24. I saw an advertisement to work for a Swedish institute in Karachi in Pakistan. I had just been offered a permanent assignment, teaching in Oulu. But I felt, 'My God, I am not going to stay here forever.' You know why? Because I was following international events.

Martti Ahtisaari

Best Swedish Sayings #315276
#25. The pace of Swedish crime fiction is slower - Stieg Larsson's the exception. And I think we use the environment more.

Camilla Lackberg

Best Swedish Sayings #331183
#26. In Sweden, there's a lot of talk of gender equality. That discussion isn't as prevalent in the U.S. I feel that successful American women are tougher than Swedish women - they create their space.

Joel Kinnaman

Best Swedish Sayings #332472
#27. I am so 100 percent Swedish ... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.

Ingmar Bergman

Best Swedish Sayings #345408
#28. I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone.

Ingmar Bergman

Best Swedish Sayings #347794
#29. As a novelist, there are three phone calls you never expect to receive in your lifetime because if you waited for them you would grow despairing - one calling from Stockholm with a Swedish accent, one from the NBA, and one from Oprah Winfrey.

Chris Bohjalian

Best Swedish Sayings #363636
#30. from Uppsala, a Swedish city that doesn't interest many people. Even the inhabitants of Uppsala* themselves are embarrassed; the name of their city sounds almost like an excuse. Sweden has the highest suicide rate in the world.

David Foenkinos

Best Swedish Sayings #370820
#31. David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.

Michael Nyqvist

Best Swedish Sayings #370982
#32. Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what's left is always the food story.

Marcus Samuelsson

Best Swedish Sayings #376994
#33. Yet they were so tempting. Because they all had those blissful views of the river. Mum liked to sit on her balcony, reading Swedish thrillers, drinking supermarket Chardonnay.

S.K. Tremayne

Best Swedish Sayings #377375
#34. Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden.

Argus Hamilton

Best Swedish Sayings #380805
#35. Pearls' burst out the Snork Maiden excitedly. 'Could ankle rings be made out of pearls?'
'I should think they could,' said Moomintoll. 'Ankle-rings, and nose-rings and ear-rings and engagement rings ...

Tove Jansson

Best Swedish Sayings #402929
#36. It is related of a Swedish priest that, profoundly disturbed by the sight of the effect his address produced upon the auditors, who were dissolved in tears, he said soothingly, "Children, do not weep; the whole thing might be a lie.

Soren Kierkegaard

Best Swedish Sayings #423611
#37. I came to speak ill of Swedish engineering, and so diddled myself out of a Nobel Prize.

Kurt Vonnegut

Best Swedish Sayings #424376
#38. In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily ... And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?

Miranda July

Best Swedish Sayings #430341
#39. In a good book the best is between the lines.

Swedish Proverb

Best Swedish Sayings #510894
#40. I was wondering, do we get the best of Swedish music or just the best of Swedish music that speaks English? Sweden has a population of nine million. And with all these acts coming out it just seems like very ripe for musical success. I don't know how they do it.

Mike Pesca

Best Swedish Sayings #895752
#41. The best way to tell whether the Norwegian is a Norwegian is to say:
"Are you Swedish?"
Regardless whether you say this in English, French, Italian, Japanese, Urdu or Swahili, he will answer:
"Swedish? Me? I'm a Norwegian!"
Then you will be able to tell.

Odd Borretzen

Best Swedish Sayings #934932
#42. The best thing to do is create a lagom number of processes. Erlang comes from Sweden, and the word lagom loosely translated means "not too few, not too many, just about right." Some say that this summarizes the Swedish character.

Joe Armstrong

Best Swedish Sayings #1069982
#43. Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially Swedish" is not the best way to go.

Maureen Johnson

Best Swedish Sayings #1707030
#44. I say the Islanders were the best team I ever covered because they had more so many stars who delivered with Canadian-Swedish-suburban modesty. And they won four straight Stanley Cups from 1980 through 1983.

George Vecsey

Best Swedish Sayings #1876284

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