Flanders Quotes

15 quotes by 12 authors

• When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile… — H. H. Asquith
• Let me tell you, though - there’s a huge difference between Flanders and Paris–Roubaix. They’re not even close to the same. In one, the cobbles… — Chris Horner
• By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium -- by that same right Germany… — Friedrich Engels
• In Flanders fields the poppies blow, — John McCrae
• All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying… — James Connolly
• Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. — Edmund Waller
• In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British armies… — Sean Lemass
• You have sent me a Flanders mare. — Henry VIII of England
• In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing,… — John McCrae
• Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island… — Martin Filler
• The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot of people laughed at you… — T.H. White
• I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders -… — Henry Williamson
• We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields. — John McCrae
• Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger. — John Lothrop Motley
• In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing,… — John McCrae

Who Wrote These Flanders Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 15 Flanders Quotes as follows:

• 4 Flanders Quotes by John McCrae
• 1 Flanders Quote by Henry VIII of England
• 1 Flanders Quote by Martin Filler
• 1 Flanders Quote by Henry Williamson
• 1 Flanders Quote by John Lothrop Motley
• 1 Flanders Quote by T.H. White
• 1 Flanders Quote by H. H. Asquith
• 1 Flanders Quote by Chris Horner
• 1 Flanders Quote by Friedrich Engels
• 1 Flanders Quote by James Connolly
• 1 Flanders Quote by Edmund Waller
• 1 Flanders Quote by Sean Lemass