Dutch Language Quotes

I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.

I'm from Limburg, near the German border.

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.

Each and every Dutchman has his own manner of thinking, his own manners and habits, usage and speech.

I started rereading 'The Dutchman' - I kind of just pulled it off the shelf.

To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.

In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.

The Netherlands were no more than the alluvium formed by the principle rivers of my empire.

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

I wouldn't change my childhood for anything. The Dutch are really nice people. The schools were great.

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.

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.

When you go to school in Holland you learn to speak English and write in English - but English is different from the Scottish language!

I'm a bit of a melting pot, I try to speak British, but there's some European lilt - a not-so-conventional one because I'm Belgian, from the Flemish part. Dutch was my mother language, and I learned English, and I speak French, too.

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

I speak a little bit of French and German, but apparently, I'm really bad at Dutch. The pronunciations are quite hard. I tried to say 'hello' in Dutch, and it did not work. People were just like, 'What?'

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

I lived in Holland for one year when I was younger and, although they speak Dutch there, I learned a little bit of English while I was there, but really I learned from movies and TV series like '24' and 'Prison Break.'

I've visited Holland plenty of times and always liked staying in the Hilton in Amsterdam.

I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.

I must confess... I don't know any tongue but the Nether-Dutch.

In Holland, there's a song that goes, 'Redheads - they know how to kiss.' But that's obviously not a song I made. I don't know who made that song.