“Ah, well, old girl, remember the definition of an Anglo-Saxon: A German who's forgotten his grandmother was Welsh.” — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other. — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the reconciliation between more… — Mario Monti Copy Share Image
Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life.… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Often we have three terms for the same thing--one Anglo-Saxon, one French, and one clearly absorbed from Latin or Greek. The Anglo-Saxon… — Henry Hitchings Copy Share Image
British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living… — Kató Lomb Copy Share Image
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
I have been amazed by the Anglo-Saxon's lack of curiosity about the internal lives and emotions of the Negroes, and for that… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was… — Helen Suzman Copy Share Image
Every wave of immigrants who came [to America] were treated pretty badly, but when they all finally became integrated, all of us… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Italians are hot and you feel the passion more there than in England. Anglo-Saxon people are more distant. It's not that you… — Marcel Desailly Copy Share Image
“If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts; Howe, Nicholas,… — Deanne Williams Copy Share Image
A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single… — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days,… — Scott MacDonald Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon farmers had scarce conquered foothold, stronghold, freehold in the Western wilderness before they became sowers of hemp--with remembrance of Virginia,… — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
It is important to me that people believe in me as a model, trust in me as a model - which they… — Noemie Lenoir Copy Share Image
France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of… — Xavier Niel Copy Share Image
Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The early 20th Century was probably the high tide of global white supremacy - I'm going to call it that because that's… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image