Dutch Quotations | Page 2

Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

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

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

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

The hooligans want to use the World Cup to show that they are just as dangerous as their English, Dutch or German counterparts. We must quite simply expect the worst.

The focus should be the medals. You can find a rivalry anywhere, the Dutch and Americans, the Italians and Americans. You just have to look for it. Americans should be proud of both of the men.

The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers.

Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.

The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other.

The Dutch fans are really passionate about speed skating. They bring a lot of energy and atmosphere to our sport.

The Dutch company was pushed out of the top 10 for only the fifth time in the last 25 years.

The Dutch are braver and more creative players, but less disciplined. They want to let the opponent see and feel that they're better, but they forget to score and settle the game.

The Dutch and the Portuguese, who just imposed really tough budgets, think, well, if little countries like us can do, you Germany can do it too. And I think the fact is, that they won't, the credibility will be eroded

The game between the Czechs and the Dutch will write itself into the history of the competition,

The coach must fit our profile -- a coach who understands the Dutch league and offensive and distinctive football. We need to find a solution soon, so someone is in place for next season.

Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!

My wife is Dutch and very independent. She never wanted or needed to be married.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch

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

And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.

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

The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch

An old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses when crossing a stream.

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.