In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they found the Huns settled in it.

Bram Stoker in Dracula (1897)
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As to Magyar, I think that my speech was incorrect, inappropriate.

quote by Bela Kun
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The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.

quote by Lajos Kossuth
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All Through The Day At My Machine

All through the day at my machine
There still keeps going
A strange little tune through heart and head
As I sit sewing:
'There is a child in Hungary,
A child I love in Hungary'
The words come flowing.
When I am walking home at night
That song comes after,
And under the trees in holiday time
Or hearing laughter:
'I have a son in Hungary,
My little son in Hungary'
Comes following after.

poem by Lesbia Harford
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The Hungarian justice is three.

Hungarian proverbs
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In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.

quote by Janos Kadar
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During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian Empire, but after World War I it became an independent national entity.

quote by Georg Solti
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The Hungarian is far too lazy to be bored.

German proverbs
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But I do not want to use Hungarian verses for British people.

quote by Gyorgy Ligeti
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It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian.

quote by Robert Capa
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In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.

quote by Bela Lugosi
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There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

quote by Gyorgy Ligeti
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This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

quote by Joseph Brodsky
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My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

quote by Eva Gabor
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The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

quote by Herbie Mann
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Eat in Poland, drink in Hungary, sleep in Germany, and make love in Italy.

Polish proverbs
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I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

quote by Lajos Kossuth
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Give a Hungarian a glass of water and a Gypsy fiddler and he will become completely drunk.

Hungarian proverbs
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In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

quote by Franz Liszt
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In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

quote by Bela Lugosi
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