Balkans quotes

If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans.

-of)
  Attributed deathbed remark. Quoted in the House of Commons,16  Aug1945.

One of nature's Balkans.

- Charles Curran
Of his friend and fellow journalist, Rebecca West. Quoted by V S Pritchett in the NewYorker, 21 Dec1987.

The only thing the Balkans export is history.

-Jim (James Albert Smith) Leach
   WAMU broadcast, Washington, 25 Nov.