Dutch quotes

In matters of commerce The fault of the Dutch Is offering too little And asking too much.

- George Canning
  Dispatch enciphered to Sir Charles Bagehot, English ambassador at The Hague, 31  Jan.

   And as the moon rose higher the unessential houses begantomelt awayuntilgradually Ibecameaware ofthe old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyesa fresh, green breast of the new world† For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

- F(rancis) Scott Key Fitzgerald
  The Great Gatsby, ch.9.

The Dutch may havetheir Holland, the Spaniard have his Spain, TheYankee to the south of us must south of us remain; For not a man dare lift a hand against the men who brag That they were born in Canada beneath the British flag.

- Pauline Johnson
  'Canadian Born', collected in Flint and Feather (1912).