Dutch Quotes · Page 3

The Dutch look like a huge jar of marmalade.

— Barry Davies

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

— Ruud Gullit

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

— Leen Lefebre

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

— Nescio

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Matthijs de Ligt

My heritage, many generations back, is Dutch and it was fun to go where nobody asked me how to pronounce my name.

— Mary Steenburgen

The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.

— Nora Ephron

The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.

— Sarah Palin

Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

— Elvis Costello

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

— Jean-Claude Juncker

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

— Dave Beard

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

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

— Kluun

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming…

— Billy Tauzin

I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in…

— Abraham Lincoln

My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker…

— Tyler Florence

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was…

— Susanna Clarke

What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea,…

— Chiang Kai-shek

They do not air 'GH' in Holland, so I don't get recognized. But the Dutch are wonderfully unimpressed with celebrity, so even…

— Anthony Geary

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived…

— Daniel Kahneman

I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it…

— Lewis Carroll

When I was in Dutch and Italian football, a lot of people looked at Manchester United, and when they were asked who…

— Edwin van der Sar

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

— Tracy Guzeman

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

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

— Winston Churchill

Protestants are the more segmented group. Mainline churches - you have problems in the U.S., Europe, the Scottish Church, the Dutch Protestant…

— Manfred Gerstenfeld

“Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke…

— Susanna Clarke

“And although it was in a hospital that she lay and I sat next to her—it is always that eternal poetry of…

— Vincent van Gogh

It is very difficult to be a non-religious Jew outside Israel. The synagogue keeps Jews together in the Diaspora. In Israel, you…

— Tommy Lapid

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

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

— Michael Caine

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

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

— Mason Cooley

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

— Eddie Vedder

I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.

— Louis van Gaal

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

— Lynne Tillman

I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school.

— Armin van Buuren

Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

— Eddy de Clercq