Angle Quote by H. Beam Piper

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

“English is what you get from Normans trying to pick up Saxon girls.”

— Bryan Maloney

It's a fact that Anglo-Saxon supremacy impacts other cultures. That is plain and simple.

— Stromae

“The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just…

— James D. Nicoll

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to…

— George Orwell

“More recently, during a debate in the House of Lords in 1978 one of the members said: "If there is a more hideous language…

— Bill Bryson

“Is It True? English is a really a form of Plattdeutsch or Lowland German, the way it was spoken during the 5th century. It…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“he was no mountaineer when he decided to climb the Hindu Kush. A few days scrambling on the rocks in Wales, enchantingly chronicled here,…

— Eric Newby

Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the moment is…

— William Golding

There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in…

— George Bernard Shaw

The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the…

— Tadashi Yanai

Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of…

— Ian Fleming