Dutch Quotes · Page 3

To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch

— Ruud Gullit

But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana.

— Eddie Izzard

Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

— Mason Cooley

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

— Ben van Berkel

Dutch values are based on Christianity, on Judaism, on humanism.

— Geert Wilders

The Dutch are a very practical people.

— Famke Janssen

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In…

— Anonymous

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.

— Ruud Gullit

Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.

— Paul Watson

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

— Mark Twain

The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.

— Richard Brookhiser

If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

— John Green

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

— Benjamin Franklin

Dutch in my ear, Olde E in my palm, I Freddy Krueger your face, Michael Myers your moms. You botherin mine? That's…

— Sean Price

I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the…

— Rhianna Pratchett

Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos)…

— Seth Shostak

The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their…

— Heinrich Heine

[European audiences differ from American] they talk different. The ones in Holland speak Dutch. The ones in Switzerland speak Swiss. That's the…

— George Thorogood

Rutger Hauer is a very famous Dutch actor who did quite a lot internationally. Another Dutch actress who is working a lot…

— Michiel Huisman

“Well, the Dutch invented the microscope,” she said. “They were jewelers, grinders of lenses. They want it all as detailed as possible…

— Donna Tartt

We address the problems of so many Dutch citizens that are afraid to go out in their neighbourhoods after 10pm, who are…

— Geert Wilders

All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed…

— Paul Engle

My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table…

— Ann Voskamp

“For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and…

— C.P. Snow

I'm not a racist.It would had also go for Swedish people, for Australian people.Of course that would apply with anybody for any…

— Geert Wilders

For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and…

— C.P. Snow

When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time…

— Karel Appel

Dutch beaches were known to me as man-made territories, as part of various land reclamation projects. But I was also interested in…

— Aleksandra Mir

Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey…

— Sarah Vowell

“The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's…

— Warren Ellis

I am extremely proud of my heritage, and I would never use being Dutch as an excuse but rather an explanation of…

— Yolanda Hadid

Being part of the Dutch national team is about unity and not about rivalry.

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

Why couldn't you beat a richer club? I've never seen a bag of money score a goal.

— Johan Cruijff

I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero.

— Bas Rutten

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

— Gayle Forman

The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked…

— Michiel Huisman

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

— John Lothrop Motley

I wouldn't change my childhood for anything. The Dutch are really nice people. The schools were great.

— Stefflon Don

Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same…

— Diplo

I am not a consensus politician... This is something that is really very un-Dutch.

— Geert Wilders