Defeated Dutch Fighter

Famous quotes containing the words defeated, dutch and/or fighter:

“Vanquished in life, his death
By beauty made amends:
The passing of his breath
Won his defeated ends.”
—Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)

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

“A pleasant smell of frying sausages
Attacks the sense, along with an old, mostly invisible
Photograph of what seems to be girls lounging around
An old fighter bomber, circa 1942 vintage.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)