"You have sent me a Flanders mare." — Henry VIII of England

More Flanders Quotes

This quote is filed under Flanders Quotes, one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire,… — 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… — Unknown Author
• By the same right under which France took Flanders, Lorraine and Alsace, and will sooner or later take Belgium --… — 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,… — 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… — Sean Lemass
• In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky,… — John McCrae
• Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders,… — Martin Filler
• The nice thing about the queen of Flanders' daughter, had been that she did not laugh at him. A lot… — T.H. White
• I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and… — Henry Williamson
• We shall not sleep, though poppies grow: In Flanders fields. — John McCrae

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