Austria quotes

Dies Osterreich ist eine kleineWelt, In der die groÞe ihre Probe h a« lt. Austria is a little world in which the big one holds its tryouts.

-William Least originally  WilliamTrogdon Heat-Moon
On the social and political disintegration affecting the  Austro- Hungarian Empire in the late1890s. Quoted in Heinrich Benedikt (ed) Geschichte der Republik Oesterreich (1954).

If Joan of Arc had been born in Austria and worn a moustache, she might have conveyed much the same impression.

-1st Viscount
  Letter to GeorgeV, referring to his first meeting with Adolf Hitler, 27 Mar. US playwright.  His  plays  and  musicals  include  Barefoot  in  the Park     (1963),     The     Odd     Couple     (1965)     and     the     semi- autobiographical trilogy  Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983), Biloxi Blues  (1984)  and  Broadway  Bound  (1986).  More  recent  works include  Lost  in Yonkers  (1991),  which  won  him  a  Pulitzer  Prize and aTonyAward, and London Suite (1995).