25 Amsterdam Quotes for Instagram Captions
If you’re looking for Amsterdam quotes to use for your Instagram captions, then you’re sure to find some good options here!
Amsterdam is largely known for its large biking population and its beautiful tulips in the springtime, however, this city has so much to offer all year round.
Whether you want some great Amsterdam captions to go along with your photos on your Instagram page, or if you’re looking for something to adequately describe a feeling you have about this charming city, these quotes about Amsterdam have it all.
Enjoy these Amsterdam travel quotes, and be sure to tag us in your Amsterdam photos when you use these for your captions!
Amsterdam Quotes for Instagram Captions
“Here people cycle with a reckless swagger, talking on the phone and eating breakfast.”
– David Nicholls
“I’m just a girl from Amsterdam.”
– Eva Simons
“In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.”
– Ezra Koenig
“Stand outside De Eland, on the Berenstraat Bridge over the Prinsengracht, and you see what real Amsterdam life is like.”
– David Hewson
“Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.”
– Julie Burchill
“In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.”
– Janet Echelman
“My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.”
– Terry Pratchett
“I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It’s a metropolis, so it’s representative of Holland, but only a part of it – you know, it’s more extreme, there’s more happening, it’s more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.”
– Anton Corbijn
“Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.”
– Eddy de Clercq
“Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.”
– Diane von Furstenberg.
“I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you’re standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.”
– Action Bronson
“The many cultures in Amsterdam contribute to the city’s high level of craziness – something which every interesting city should offer.”
– Charles Landry
“Amsterdam is a breeding ground for new creative pursuits in many areas fueled by tolerance and openness to ideas, unlike any world city I’ve been to. There is something for everyone here, especially when you dare to go off the beaten path.”
– Marcel Wanders
“I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it’s possible that I even had a few blackouts.”
– Wolfgang Beltracchi
“Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.”
– John Green
“Amsterdam lives and breathes creativity. One moment you walk into a building from the 17th century, and the next you find yourself in a hub of creative start-up companies.”
– Marcel Wanders
“In Amsterdam, the water is the mistress and the land the vassal.”
– Felix Marti-Ibanez
“But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church’s east corner is crowded.”
– Jessie Burton
“I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It’s fresh and so open. It’s definitely one of my favourite places.”
– Stefon Harris
“Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.”
– James Weldon Johnson
“Call me a pig, but isn’t it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they’re still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they’re hanging the closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.”
– Julie Burchill
“…the curious Dutch classification gedogen, which means ‘technically illegal but officially tolerated.”
– Russell Shorto
“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth, it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.”
– John Green
“I am a village boy, and Amsterdam for me was always the big town.”
– Anton Corbijn
“Most visitors to Amsterdam will wander into the red-light district out of sheer curiosity. The narrow streets are mostly safe day and night – just don’t try to take pictures of the women working in the windows.”
– David Hewson
I hope that these Amsterdam quotes have given you some great ideas to use for your Instagram captions the next time you post a photo from your trip to the Netherlands.
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