14 Quotes by Croatian authors

Croatian quotes blend salt-sprayed realism with a lyric pulse. Shaped by the bura and stone, they prize responsibility, neighborly warmth, and a wry eye for human folly. Melancholy čežnja and island fjaka sit beside brisk, work-worn pragmatism; faith and skepticism share a table. The voice can be tender, then suddenly sharp, dišpet flickering under courtesy. Love of zavičaj is constant, yet never sentimental. Expect aphorisms that travel light, savor silence, and leave an aftertaste of olive, smoke, and sea.

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"Thank god my wife is neither a Serb nor a Jew"

Franjo Tudjman, Statesman

"He was driven by the idea that when Milosevic grabs a part of Bosnia, Croatia should get a piece of it, too"

Stjepan Mesic, Statesman

"You can't slow the game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast"

Goran Ivanisevic, Athlete

"The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated"

Franjo Tudjman, Statesman

"We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transition and must cooperate with each other, because our economies depend on each other"

Stjepan Mesic, Statesman

"Croatia did not want Europe to be divided as to the start of Croatia's EU entry talks"