Saxon Quotes

56 quotes by 48 authors

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
The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,the aromatic America of Columbus,Catholic America, Spanish America,the America where noble CuauhtÃ©moc said: "I am not on a bed of… — Ruben Dario
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
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of… — Ambrose Bierce
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
If King Harold had had swans on his side, England would still be Saxon. — Connie Willis
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word… — Henry Watson Fowler
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
When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally… — Jonathan Demme
There is no English equivalent for the French word flÃ¢neur. Cassell's dictionary defines flÃ¢neur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems… — Cornelia Otis Skinner
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 Å½iÅ¾ek
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
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
Anglo-Saxon barbarians. Arthur should have been made a Knight — William W. Johnstone
English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results. — H. Beam Piper
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
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
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

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