Anglo-Saxon Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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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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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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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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French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.
— Kristin Scott Thomas
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.
— Seamus Heaney
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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
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Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.
— Martin Freeman
Who Wrote These Anglo-Saxon Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Anglo-Saxon Quotes as follows: