Top 34 Flanders Now Quotes
#1. To date, treasure-hunters have followed up clue after clue, including a dagger-marked tree, to no avail. If there is a fortune buried in Handcart Gulch, it is still safely hidden
Phyllis Flanders Dorset
#3. Above all, for his merciless, contemptuous treatment of Clifford Chatterley, blown to bits in Flanders in 1918, Lawrence can be damned to hell. Damned but not banned.
Germaine Greer
#4. Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
Edmund Waller
#5. I must return to my old comrades of the Great War - to the brown, the treeless, the flat and grave-set plain of Flanders - to the rolling, heat-miraged downlands of the Somme - for I am dead with them, and they live in me again.
Henry Williamson
#6. The purpose of satire has been rightly stated as to strip off the veneer of comforting illusion and cosy half truth, and our job, as I see it, is to put it back again!
Michael Flanders
#7. Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are.
Judith Flanders
#8. [Ned Flanders]: Well looks like someone's having a pre-rapture party.
[Homer Simpson]: No, Flanders. Its a meeting of gay witches for abortion, you wouldn't be interested.
Matt Groening
#9. I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
Daniel Defoe
#10. Every society in every period does or doesn't talk about certain topics. We don't discuss money much; it's almost certain that most people don't know how much their colleagues earn. The Victorians, in contrast, were very happy to discuss money. They weren't, however, happy to discuss sex.
Judith Flanders
#11. He was the standard against which all others were measured.
Rebecca Flanders
#12. We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
John McCrae
#13. A Bradypus or Sloth am I, / I live a life of ease, / Contented not to do or die / But idle as I please.
Michael Flanders
#15. January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours ...
Michael Flanders
#16. Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings.
Martin Filler
#17. There are supposed to be endorphins or whatever that make you feel great when you exercise. I don't think I have any, because I only feel great when I'm lying on the sofa reading a book, possibly while simultaneously eating biscuits.
Judith Flanders
#18. I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.
Wallace Shawn
#20. The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.
Judith Flanders
#21. The English, the English, The English are best: So Up with the English and Down with the Rest!
Michael Flanders
#22. Demonstrating patience and kindness to those around us in concrete ways blesses and enriches us as well. - Louise D. Flanders -
Gary Chapman
#24. Dickens' London was a place of the mind, but it was also a real place. Much of what we take today to be the marvellous imaginings of a visionary novelist turn out on inspection to be the reportage of a great observer.
Judith Flanders
#25. They died in splendour, these who claimed no spark
Of glory save the light in a friend's eye.
Edmund Blunden
#27. When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.
H. H. Asquith
#28. If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.
Michael Flanders
#29. Julius brooded. He could see Julius despising the medical school of Pavia. Tobie said, Nicholas managed the journey from Flanders all right. Deferred to you, joked discreetly with me, got on like a dyeworks on fire with the muleteers.
Dorothy Dunnett
#30. One of the great problems of the world today is undoubtedly this problem of not being able to talk to scientists, because we don't understand science; they can't talk to us because they don't understand anything else, poor dears.
Michael Flanders
#31. lads who were to fight, and perhaps fall, on the fields of France and Flanders, Gallipoli and Palestine, were still roguish schoolboys with a fair life in prospect before
L.M. Montgomery
#32. If God had intended us to fly he would have given us railways.
Michael Flanders
#34. Hey boys, come up here!" Lee's excited shout bounced from rock to rock down the gulch. "I've got all of California right here in this pan!
Phyllis Flanders Dorset
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