Boredom Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts...The name was…

— Aldous Huxley

“It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And, in these…

— Jean-Christophe Valtat

“the Welsh name for ‘England’, Lloegr, meant ‘the Lost Land’, I fell for the fancy, imagining what a huge sense of loss and forgetting…

— Norman Davies

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

— F. E. Adcock

“The Prince’s name preserved, in the boldness with which its opening syllables were—to borrow an expression from music—attacked, and in the stammering repetition that…

— Marcel Proust

The nameless is the beginning of Heaven and Earth. The named is the mother of all things.

— Laozi

A lot of fantasy names are too much. They’re too difficult to pronounce. I wanted the flavour of medieval England. I took actual names…

— George R. R. Martin

There is a great deal in a name. It often signifies much, and may involve a great principle.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world.…

— Laila Lalami

We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we…

— Milan Kundera

The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.

— Matthew Arnold

“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