Anglo Quotes

73 Anglo quotes by 59 unique authors

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle… — Penelope Lively
It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having… — Josiah Strong
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and… — Henry James
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
Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other. — Ruth Benedict
French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries. — Kristin Scott Thomas
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 the East as… — Olivia Williams
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of… — Terry Eagleton
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind… — Malcolm Mclaren
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world… — Cecil Rhodes
The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the… — Peter Ackroyd
If the union between England and America is a powerful factor in the cause of peace, a new Triple Alliance between the Teutonic race and… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe… — Josiah Strong
The Anglo-Saxon has established himself in climates totally diverse - Canada, South Africa, and India - and, through several generations, has preserved his essential race… — Josiah Strong
The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion. — Matthew Arnold
British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of… — Mike Harding
I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concerned, as better friends of the race than… — Marcus Garvey
Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high… — Umberto Eco
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would… — Camille Paglia
The struggle is inner: Chicano, indio, American Indian, mojado, mexicano, immigrant Latino, Anglo in power, working class Anglo, Black, Asian--our psyches resemble the bordertowns and… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
I have these guilts about never having read Chaucer but I was talked out of learning Early Anglo-Saxon / Middle English by a friend who… — Helene Hanff
A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively,… — Robert A. Heinlein
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action. — H.G. Wells

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