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Dutch Quotes by Daniel Defoe
- The Dutch must be understood as they really are, the Middle Persons in Trade, the Factors and Brokers of Europe... they buy to sell again,…
- An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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- And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the… — Julie Burchill
- In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal… — George Canning
- My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and… — Amy Chua
- What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From… — J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
- How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or… — Peter Kreeft
- [On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug. — Mark Twain
- I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going… — Janeane Garofalo
- 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
- There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch. — Michael Caine
- In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global… — Richard Lindzen