Dutch Quotes · Page 2

“Een avontuur was niet voor lafaards, maar voor dapperlingen!”

— Leen Lefebre

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

— Rem Koolhaas

I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch.

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Whether you like it or not - I want to close the Dutch borders.

— Geert Wilders

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

— Andrew Marvell

But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana.

— Eddie Izzard

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

— Ruud Gullit

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

— Georginio Wijnaldum

[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

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

— Johan Cruijff

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

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

“Zal de waarheid zegevieren in dit geval? 'De waarheid komt altijd boven' is het gezegde maar is dat ook wel zo?”

— Kimberly Reich

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

— Johan Cruijff

“Vooruitgang bestaat niet, en dat is maar goed ook, want zoals het is, is het al erg genoeg.”

— Gerard Reve

RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

— Ambrose Bierce

Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart -…

— Teddy Sheringham

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to…

— Charlie Munger

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I…

— Jackie Collins

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

— Paul Engle

I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian,…

— Michelle Hunziker

If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both…

— Els Borst

I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname;…

— Willem Dafoe

What the federal government should have done is accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solution that…

— Sarah Palin

[The Dutch] people want [refugees to be safe] but don't come here. And don't forget, people are very angry about that, that…

— Geert Wilders

“He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English…

— Hermann Goring

One night in the early sixties I passed something on the Long Island Expressway just before the Queens tunnel that I must…

— Larry Rivers

The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy…

— Daniel Defoe

LTCM lost money when Russia defaulted on a certain class of bonds, and then they had other investments like on the spread…

— Richard Thaler

We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is…

— Nathan Myhrvold

You're looking, moment by moment and scene by scene, how you can tell the most interesting story. So, we had this great…

— John August

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

— Klaas-Jan Huntelaar

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

— Ben van Berkel

The Dutch are a very practical people.

— Famke Janssen

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

— Geert Wilders

Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

— Mason Cooley

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

— Bert Blyleven

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

— Hernan Crespo

“The beautiful couple is beautiful.”

— John Green