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Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.
[ ... ]so I just sat there surrounded by Dutchness, feeling awkward and hopeful.
In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.
was stopped on the street by a Dutch policeman, who ordered her to slowly speak the words Scheveningen and schapenscheerder. The Dutch police were trying to weed out Germans posing as Dutch, who most likely would not be able to pronounce those Dutch words.
Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable.
No wonder the tulip is the patron flower of Holland. Looking at it one almost smells fresh paint laid on in generous brilliance: doors, blinds, whole houses, canal boats, pails, farm wagons - all painted in greens, blues, reds, pinks, yellows.
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.
The Dutch were among the earliest adopters of a new technology - the printed book - and
The Italians are wise before the deede, the Germanes in the deede, the French after the deede.
[The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germens in the deed, the French after the deed.]
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English.
Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of building dikes to wall out the salty sea and through pumping the water into canals, the country of the ingenious, resourceful, and doughty Dutch has literally been born of the sea.
Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.
The gay motes that people the sunbeams.
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat.
Down to the 23rd page of double dutch!
The Welsh ... I mean, what are they for?
[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country.
do they not tell us more of the real spirit of the Italian Renaissance, of the dream of Savonarola and of the sin of Borgia, than all the brawling boors and cooking women of Dutch art can teach us of the real spirit of the history of Holland?
If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they may be Atheists.
You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.
Some men prayed for life and some for death, in languages as varied as their uniforms - the Dutch and Germans and the Scots and French and English tangled side by side, for all men looked alike when they were dying.
The French: a people who have used their sophisticated culture and beautiful language to bequeath to the world the sliced potato.
I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.
Amsterdam: Where the pendulum swings from God to a guilder.
Holland seems like a quaint toy.
Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.
Stupid British men, dropping women and seducing them in gardens.
People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language.
I am just a Flemish girl with her feet on the ground.
I will never forget the moment when Peter van Pels and I saw a group of selected men. Among those men was Peter's father. The men were marched away. Two hours later, a lorry came by, loaded with their clothing.
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
Bekeren is geen mensenwerk. Dat laat ik over aan God.
(Converting people is not a job for humans. I leave that to God).
Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.
The language sticks to them like cat hair to black trousers, and they do things correctly without knowing why.
The Netherlands is a wonderful country," said Sigerius. "If you're determined to be a bad egg, there's a great big professional circle of friends ready to help you. Whoever doesn't have the balls to just get out and work, but does have a criminal record, is given a nice subsidized job.
Nobody would be riding a racist Wilhelmina golden coach today in The Hague if the Dutch hadn't swept unpleasant aspects of their history under the rug.
I would like a cappuccino," says Linus politely. "Thank you."
"Your name?"
"I'll spell it for you," he says. "Z-W-P-A-E-N
"
"What?" She stares at him, Sharpie in hand.
"Wait, I haven't finished. Double F-hyphen-T-J-U-S. It's an unusual name, Linus adds gravely. "It's Dutch.
Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.
There are many nice, peaceful Muslims, but the Netherlands is far too tolerant regarding the statements of the radical wing of Islam.
Men who only live to eat.
I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.
Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.
Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.
those ghouls who enter into a macabre dance with pot-bellied netas.
I waltzed into the hall with my escort of five screws like some rapper with his well-paid entourage. A fiendish looking, little bastard with blonde hair and a crooked nose came up to me and said, 'Okay, Holland, welcome to Shotts. Welcome to the man-eater!
We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
Who is wurs shod, than the shoemakers wyfe,With shops full of shoes all hir lyfe?
Monkey People? They
A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.
The flannelled fools at the wicket or the mudied oafs at the goals ...
But we once had some, we white men, in one of the islands. Not the Oui-ouis" (native name for the French), "real white men.
Among the New Hollanders whom we were thus engaged with, there was one who by his appearance and carriage, as well in the morning as this afternoon, seemed to be the chief of them, and a kind of prince or captain among them.
Afrikander cattle.
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.
Anonymous young men with all-American bone structures.
In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.
People with imagination
There is nothing so changeable as our own live.
Er is niets zo veranderlijk als ons eigen leven.
Frenchmen tend to be alike, because they are all soldiers; Prussians because they are all something else, probably policemen; even Americans are all something, though it is not easy to say what it is; it goes with hawk-like eyes and an irrational eagerness. Perhaps it is savages.
How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it.
What are you called?" "Georgette. How are you called?" "Jacob." "That's a Flemish name." "American too." "You're not Flamand?" "No, American." "Good, I detest Flamands.
Weak, tea-drinking, effeminate, ineffectual
masters of India, robbers of South Africa, bedevillers of all Europe.
It has everything to do with Rotterdam. America's oil addiction is a sickness that's killing the patient. Christ, Americans would rather send soldiers to war than carpool to work.
Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any ...
Laistry ... I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?"
"Canadians.
The new Kenyans. There are always new Kenyans.
Of Bloemendaal was said to be one of the most beautiful in Holland. I had never seen it, only the trees at
My name is Abraham van Helsing. And I've seen more than you can possibly believe exist." "I don't recognize your accent, boy. Where do you come from?" "I'm Dutch." "You sound more German than Dutch." "My mother is German. I'm told I got the accent from her. But I am Dutch.
Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.
What's that?' Thaniel said, curious. The postmarks and stamps weren't English or Japanese.
'A painting. There's a depressed Dutchman who does countryside scenes and flowers and things. It's ugly, but I have to maintain the estates in Japan and modern art is a good investment.
The thing that impressed itself most on me in Holland was the thoroughness of the agriculture and the excellence of the Holstein cattle. I
And what sort of lively lads with the pencil those Chinese are, many queer cups and saucers inform us.
Jan-Peter offered to teach me the language of Amsterdam's red light district ... But after his first phrase
'Using the back door will cost you double'
I withdrew my request.
Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.
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.
Men fear wanderers for they have no rules. The Danes came as strangers, rootless and violent, and that, I thought, was why I was always happier in their company.
I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.
Scottish men are . . . hardy?
The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?
I got some of their jabber out of a book. S'pose a man was to come to you and say Polly-voo-franzy - what would you think?" "I wouldn' think nuffn; I'd take en bust him over de head - dat
Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill.
My ancestors came from Co Roscommon, transported to Van Diemen's Land for stealing food.
The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.
Who called the idiot brigade?
Frenchman: Germans with good food.
Four guys from England took us all by the hand.
wankers snorting
The French cook; we open tins.
I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.
Mennonites are so called because they followed Menno Simons, a sixteenth-century Dutch Catholic priest
Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.
Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.
Early the next morning, they were on a tram out to the far edge of Amsterdam. Ginny liked the tram. It was like an overgrown toy train that had gotten loose on the streets. She looked out and saw the Netherlands wobbling by - its ancient houses and constant canals and people in practical shoes.
In passing I draw attention to another English expression which often occurs in Dutch texts: "the real world". In Dutch - and I am afraid not in Dutch alone - its usage is almost always a symptom of a violent anti-intellectualism.
Men are led by trifles.
...the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means 'technically illegal but officially tolerated.
Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French.