Anglo Saxon Quotes
45 quotes by 38 authors
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Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether legislation shall be…
— James G. Blaine
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America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of…
— Harold Cruse
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Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games…
— John Fowles
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This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make…
— Patricia Highsmith
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Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Africa is still lying ready for us, it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more…
— Cecil Rhodes
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There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems…
— Cornelia Otis Skinner
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For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further…
— Slavoj Žižek
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It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living animals are expressed…
— Kató Lomb
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I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out…
— Scott MacDonald
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In recent years a new International System has been developing, oriented toward the establishment of norms and principles of universal jurisdiction, above national sovereignty, in…
— Vicente Fox
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Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight
— William W. Johnstone
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I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or…
— Edward Wilmot Blyden
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I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for…
— Cecil Rhodes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Traditional Anglo-Saxon intolerance is a local and temporal culture trait like any other.
— Ruth Benedict
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French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
Who Wrote These Anglo Saxon Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 45 Anglo Saxon Quotes, led by these top contributors: