Flanders Quotes
15 quotes by 12 authors
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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
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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
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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
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow,
— John McCrae
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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
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Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
— Edmund Waller
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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
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You have sent me a Flanders mare.
— Henry VIII of England
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields.
— John McCrae
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Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
— John Lothrop Motley
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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: