120+ Best Vietnam Quotes and Vietnam Instagram Captions

Best Vietnam Quotes

“Vietnam, I love you for a long time. All day, all night, I love you a long time.” – Alex Garland

“It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way, I had been systematically writing around it.” – Yusef Komunyakaa

“In Japan, people drive on the left. In China, people drive on the right. It doesn’t matter in Vietnam.” – Unknown

“Vietnamese girls are beautiful, and almost always become beautiful women, and beauty is never uncomfortable in life: even intelligence is forgiven.” – Oriana Fallaci

“I can’t say what made me fall in love with Vietnam – that a woman’s voice can drug you; that everything is so intense. The colors, the taste, even the rain.” – Graham Greene

“Vietnamese food has probably been saved from the mass market because most people never master the sauces and condiments that must be added to the food, at the table, for its glories to become apparent. It’s too much trouble, and a lot of people don’t like asking for help, especially if the interaction involves some linguistic awkwardness.” – Tyler Cowen

“My ultimate getaway is Vietnam. It has a little bit of everything when it comes to culture, amazing food, beautiful people, exotic sights, sounds and profound history of love, bravery and resilience.” – Jeannie Mai

“For me, the way to approach a subject such as Vietnam is through storytelling.” – Tim O’Brien

“They say whatever you’re looking for, you will find here. They say you come to Vietnam and you understand a lot in a few minutes, but the rest has got to be lived. The smell: that’s the first thing that hits you, promising everything in exchange for your soul. And the heat. Your shirt is straightaway a rag. You can hardly remember your name, or what you came to escape from.” – Graham Greene

“Vietnam was always, in a single moment, dreadful, funny, nightmarish, ecstatic. In its moments of highest drama, it was always its own best and worst parody.” – Philip D Beidler

Unique Vietnam Instagram captions

My favorite part about Vietnam? The constant challenge of trying to cross the street without getting hit by a motorbike.

Indulging in the warmth and hospitality of Vietnam.

I left my heart in Vietnam.

Vietnam: where history echoes, beauty captivates and culture thrives.

In the embrace of Vietnam’s beauty, I find solace and inspiration.

Happiness is holding tickets that say Hanoi.

Vietnam is my cup of tea.

It’s official: Vietnamese coffee is my new addiction.

“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Kiss me goodbye and write me while I’m gone. Goodbye my sweetheart, hello Vietnam.” – Dave Dudley

Funny Vietnam Puns for Instagram captions

Coffee in Vietnam is eggcellent!

I lake Hanoi a lot.

I’m always going to Miss Saigon

Ha Long, how long will I slide? 

I’m crazy pho you.

I’m soy into you.

You’re really starting to Hanoi me.

Mui Ne can’t buy you class.

I’m just coconuts for Vietnamese drinks.

Egg Coffee really cracks me up.

More Vietnam Puns for Instagram Captions

Just spent a week in Vietnam and my pho-to album is looking pretty good.

I didn’t choose the bahn life, the bahn life chose me.

You’re really starting to Hanoi me.

Ha Long, how long will I slide? 

Ha Long till I come back?

I wanna stay here pho-ever!

The food in Vietnam is pho-nomenal!

Is this pho real?

Vietnam is a bun cha fun!

1, 2, 3, pho, 5.

Best Vietnam travel quotes

“I remember being in Vietnam in my early 20s, at the height of Lonely Planet’s fame, and all the travellers would converge on internet cafes to send emails back home. It was a great place to exchange tips and recommendations, so you actually interacted with people.” – Konnie Huq

“Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.” – Craig Venter

“I would like to dive in Vietnam and Cambodia.” – Neil Morrissey

“My first time overseas was taking 10,000 tons of beer to Vietnam.” – John F. Kelly

“I’d love to go to Indonesia, Bali, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia.” – Tazin Outhwaite

“I didn’t expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they’ve sanded away all but the outcroppings of history – the museums, the memorials.” – Evan Osnos

“That’ll put us about a hundred miles due east of Ho Chi Minh City in another five hours. The name always caught Max off guard. Vietnam’s largest city would always be Saigon to him.” – Clive Cussler

“There are several places in Vietnam where they’re teaching computer science from second grade in the class, so they don’t have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program.” – Megan Smith

“The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.” – William Westmoreland

“I’ve been to Vietnam and China, so it’s great to see new places and experience the culture and people.” – Danilo Gallinari

Inspirational quotes about Vietnam

“We tried to change Vietnam. Instead, Vietnam changed us.” – Tony Thomson

“Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions – such as China, Vietnam, and Iran – look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.” – Pankaj Mishra

“India and Vietnam are old civilizations. We have ancient cultural and spiritual connections.” – Ram Nath Kovind

“A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.” – Henry Rollins

“Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline.” – Horst Faas

“When I was younger, my dad taught me how to cook. He’s a genius in the kitchen. I went to Vietnam with my parents, and I went on a cooking course with him.” – Ellie Bamber

“Vietnam’s century-old French villas and colonial-era government buildings are a draw for the 8 million tourists who visit the country every year. Even in France, we don’t have so many examples of the beautiful wrought-iron railings and staircases that you see here.” – Emmanuel Ly-Batalla

“All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.” – Michael Herr

“A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel anguish and sadness and pain. Then in other moments, when you look at Jackie Kennedy walking down Fifth Avenue, that makes you feel glory and richness.” – Mario Testino

“I’m very moved to be here today, … Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.” – Ho Chi Minh

Famous Vietnamese proverbs 

“Careful attention prevents misfortune.”

“Adversity is the mother of wisdom.”

“Empty barrels make loud noises.”

“When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.”

“It’s best to wash one’s soiled linen at home.”

“One worm may damage the whole cooking soup.”

“The buffalo that arrive late will have to drink muddy water and eat dried grass.”

“One piece of food while hungry equals a big box of food while full.”

“Better to die than to live with a bad reputation.”

“The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee’s sting.”

Famous Vietnamese sayings 

“Eating as in the North; clothing as in the South.”

“He that knows nothing doubts nothing.”

“Young bamboo trees are easy to bend.”

“People say that time goes by; time says that the people go by.”

“It’s better to sleep on the floor in an incense shop than in a bed in a fish market.”

“Sun is for cucumbers, rain for rice.”

“Water flows, rock erodes.”

“Victory makes you into an emperor, defeat into a rebel.”

“A day of traveling will bring a basketful of learning.”

“Better a lean peace than a fat victory.”

Quotes by famous Vietnamese people

“The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship… Apparently, some in the Vietnamese government don’t want to do that and that’s their decision.” – Ho Chi Minh

“You have to be very fond of men. Very, very fond. You have to be very fond of them to love them. Otherwise, they’re simply unbearable.” – Marguerite Duras

“Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.” – Ho Chi Minh

“Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.” – Ho Chi Minh

“Your problem isn’t that you think too much; your problem is letting everyone know what you’re thinking.” – Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Nothing is ever so expensive as what is offered for free.” – Viet Thanh Nguyen

“It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.” – Marguerite Duras

“If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“I follow only one party: the Vietnamese party.” – Ho Chi Minh

“Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.” – Monique Truong

“After the rain, good weather. In the wink of an eye, the universe throws off its muddy clothes.” – Ho Chi Minh

Funny quotes about Vietnam

“Hey, what was the name of that new Vietnamese restaurant? – Pho King. Good food.”

“Yesterday I got kicked out of a Vietnamese restaurant – How dare they banh mi?”

“What’s the WiFi password at a Vietnamese noodle shop? – 123pho5”

“The Vietnamese restaurant in my town closed yesterday. The sign out front said Pho Sale.”

“After a misunderstanding, a suburban Vietnamese bakery tried to Ban Mi. I said let’s just let Saigons be Saigons.”

“A Vietnamese restaurant is offering herbed potato sticks served with a bowl of noodle soup. Thyme fries when you’re having pho.”

“I had to wait in line for a bowl of Vietnamese soup. That’s it, no joke. Don’t like it? Pho queue.”

“I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.” – Morley Safer

“The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression.” – Noam Chomsky

More Vietnam quotes

“In Hue, Vietnam, we had savory rice pancakes with crumbled shrimp and pork rinds. I’ve still never had a version as good.” – Ali Wong

“This – not any particular piece of Vietnamese culture – is my inheritance: the inexplicable need and extraordinary ability to run when the shit hits the fan. My refugee reflex.” – Thi Bui

“If there were only one place to eat, I would pick anywhere in Northern Vietnam where you get the French and Vietnamese culinary fusion.” – Jeannie Mai

“Although I wasn’t able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.” – Tony Hillerman

“I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.” – Brendan Frase

“The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression.” – Noam Chomsky

“It’s true that, in Vietnamese, we rarely say I love you, and when we do, it is almost always in English. Care and love, for us, are pronounced clearly through service…” – Ocean Vuong

“I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.” – Morley Safer

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