Dutch Language Area

Famous quotes containing the words dutch, language and/or area:

    “Too nice is neighbor’s fool.”
    —Common Dutch saying, trans by Johanna C. Prins.

    “All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.”
    —Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    “I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids
    Sprouting despondently at area gates.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)