69 Quotes About Belgium

... En wat dat snobisme betreft, je mag niet vergeten waar ze vandaan komt.' 'Waar komt ze vandaan, dan?' Helena nipt van haar glas wijn en glimlacht. 'Keerbergen.' Klaus lacht. 'Dat verklaart alles.

Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her King and, faced with the choice to acquiesce or resist, took less than three hours to make her decision, knowing it might be mortal.

I am generous and about to make a multi-million dollar sacrifice to beautify my capital. It will cost me three to four years of wages, but I wish my life here on earth to leave many traces.

We prefer freedom with poverty to wealth with tyranny.

Dear Minister, please let me know how many men are actually available in Hainaut, Ghent and Brussels, please also inform me of any measures that will allow you to remain in control of the situation if necessary, I wish you the assurance, dear minister, of my total devotion.

We must put an end to anarchy and its continuing preaching.

Belgium is not a Nation.

You have the charisma of a damp rag, and the appearance of a low-grade bank clerk. And the question that I want to ask, that we're all going to ask, is "Who are you?" I'd never heard of you. Nobody in Europe had ever heard of you.

I like to say that while antimatter may seem strange, it is strange in the sense that Belgians are strange. They are not really strange; it is just that one rarely meets them.