Dutch Quotes

I speak English, obviously, Afrikaans, which is a derivative of Dutch that we have in South Africa. And then I speak African languages. So I speak Zulu. I speak Xhosa. I speak Tswana. And I speak Tsonga. And like - so those are my languages of the core. And then I don't claim German, but I can have a conversation in it. So I'm trying to make that officially my seventh language. And then, hopefully, I can learn Spanish.

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.

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

The Dutch change positions quicker than you can make a cup of coffee.

The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?

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

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

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

Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.

Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.

Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

Whether you like it or not - I want to close the Dutch borders.

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana!

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

When somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here.

You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.

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

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.

The Dutch look like a huge jar of marmalade.

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

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

The Dutch are a very practical people.

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

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!

The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.

Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

Sarah Palin is speaking out about the oil spill. She said, I'm not kidding, we should ask the Dutch for help with the spill because the Dutch have the world's best dikes. So let me get this straight. It is OK to cover lesbians in oil but you just can't let them get married.

When you hear the music of these celebrated Dutch superstar-DJs nowadays... my God, I wouldn't even feed their music to my dog. I don't consider that to be my sort of dance music.

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

In Indonesian, the word isn't translating as "gangster." It's "preman", which comes from the Dutch "préman", which of course the thing that's "freeman" in English.

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

The Dutch have a can-do mentality, anything is possible. As long as you pay for it. It is very capitalist. Quite American in a way.

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have to score the third one first.

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

I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.

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.

Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.

80 percent of the Dutch jihadists who go to fight in Syria are Moroccans. 80 percent. They are 22 times over represented when it comes to street crime, and 60 percent of the Moroccan youth under the age of 23 has been arrested at least once.

The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding.

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

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