Dutch Quotes · Page 2

“They were so posh that even their Dutch sounded French.”

— Stefan Hertmans

Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

— John Green

The Dutch change positions quicker than you can make a cup of coffee.

— Paolo Rossi

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

— Eoin Colfer

The Dutch do have a slightly odd sense of humour.

— Bill Bailey

I grew up watching the great Milan teams with the Dutch players.

— Hernan Crespo

I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.

— Bert Blyleven

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Alles wat leuk is in het leven is godverdomme dodelijk. En weet je wat het allergevaarlijkst is? Leven. Van leven ga je…

— Kluun

Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

— Eddy de Clercq

The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

— Dave Beard

I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have…

— Chris Van Allsburg

When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an…

— Ferran Adria

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

— Michael Caine

I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

— John Oliver

I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some…

— Simon Kuper

The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee…

— Frances Trollope

I was on the pom pom team, I was on the cheerleading team, I sang. I played football with the guys 'cause…

— Dreezy

Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical…

— Robert M. Price

Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637,…

— James Buchan

It's a little luck and a little how you are able to go physically and mentally for all 90 minutes. They say…

— Frank de Boer

As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the Ocean: "Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up…

— John Green

We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set…

— Alice Morse Earle

What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the…

— Winston Churchill

There is the view I call penal non-substitution, or the penal example view. (It is also called the Governmental View in textbooks…

— Oliver D. Crisp

“When Alice was younger, her father had fashioned a rough mask from evergreen needles and lake grass glued to a rotten shell…

— Tracy Guzeman

Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement.…

— Charles Dickens

I speak English, obviously, Afrikaans, which is a derivative of Dutch that we have in South Africa. And then I speak African…

— Trevor Noah

I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a…

— John Diefenbaker

The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired…

— Robert Charles Wilson

In the Netherlands - where I come from - you actually never see a pig, which is really strange, because, in a…

— Christien Meindertsma

I know what I can do and what I can give to the Dutch team.

— Matthijs de Ligt

“The beautiful couple is beautiful.”

— John Green

The Dutch look like a huge jar of marmalade.

— Barry Davies

“Jongens waren we - maar aardige jongens. Al zeg ik 't zelf”

— Nescio

“Aurelio had de zwartste blik aan het hof doch zijn ziel was blank.”

— Leen Lefebre

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

— Ruud Gullit

I was always happy to play for the Dutch national team.

— Georginio Wijnaldum

Milan - the club and the city - is a very special place for us Dutch.

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar