Best england & holland Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”

Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel

“There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.”

States Culture Sex Sports United United States Crime Scene England Instance France Making Money Sunday Philanthropy Easter Propositions Belgium Holland Easter Sunday

Book:The Folks at Home

Source: The Folks at Home

“If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.”

Ifs Has Beens Stills Conflict England Independence Dare Secure France Germany Heroic Stubborn Spain Assured Philippines Holland

Author:Jose Rizal

“O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.”

Mind Pain Nations Moral Teach Teaching Youth Praying England Occasions France Germany Spain I Pray Ingenious Holland All Occasions

Author:Lord Byron

“To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.”

Men America Political Liberty Class England Dues Holland England And America

Book:History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort: With a Full View of the English-Dutch Struggle Against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada

Source: History of the United Netherlands, from the Death of William the Silent to the Synod of Dort: With a Full View of the English-Dutch Struggle Against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada

“My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.”

Mean Different Courses Goal Known England Holland Netherlands

Author:Dennis Bergkamp

“I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.”

Thinking Literature Fiction Crime England Crime Fiction Holland

Author:Karin Slaughter

“In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees, for birds and flowers.”

Country Moments Passion Tree Flower Bird England Belgium Holland

Author:Audrey Hepburn

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