About Quote by Lydia Davis

“Often we have three terms for the same thing--one Anglo-Saxon, one French, and one clearly absorbed from Latin or Greek. The Anglo-Saxon word is…

— Henry Hitchings

I love English, though I now call it 'Anglo- American' because we no longer speak British English due to globalization and America's economic power.

— Maurice Druon

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

— George Orwell

“Remarkably, this Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (as it was later known) was written not in Latin, as was the practice in virtually every other literate corner…

— Marc Morris

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.

— Rita Mae Brown

“85 percent of the 30,000 Anglo-Saxon words died out under the influence of the Danes and Normans. That means that only about 4,500 Old…

— Bill Bryson

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

— Stromae

I have a few minor rules for myself but I break them all the time. For example, when translating from Romance languages to English,…

— Adam Morris

In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.

— Robert Fitzgerald

“The English language is the tongue now current in England and her colonies throughout the world and also throughout the greater part of the…

— Joseph Devlin

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the…

— Louise Erdrich

I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in…

— Viggo Mortensen