Best Anglo Saxon Quotes

45 Anglo Saxon quotes by 38 unique authors

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 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
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action. — H.G. Wells
As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the straight nose that… — Maggie Stiefvater
It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in… — Martin Jacques
In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated. — Seamus Heaney
Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these… — Michael Leunig
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is… — Lydia Davis
Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German. — Martin Freeman
The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin — Salvador De Madariaga
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
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised… — Cecil Rhodes
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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