Saxon Quotes

56 Saxon quotes by 48 unique authors

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
What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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 natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border. — Goldwin Smith
Primeval forests! virgin sod! That Saxon has not ravish'd yet, Lo! peak on peak in stairways set- In stepping stairs that reach to God! Here… — Joaquin Miller
The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply… — Bayard Taylor
The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion. — Matthew Arnold
The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward… — Winston Churchill
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
English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than… — H. Beam Piper
You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into danger as Saxon… — David Petersen
It was, according to the history books, the fastest coronation since Bubric the Saxon crowned himself with a very pointy crown on a hill during… — Terry Pratchett
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
An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the… — Susan B. Anthony
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

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