Anglo saxon Quote by S.M. Stirling

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

— Bryan Maloney

“...and said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.”

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Welsh, they call us, from the Saxon word waelisc, meaning a foreigner. About the race-course, I cannot tell you. But if some of our…

— Richard Llewellyn

“Give me a sight of you to take back to England with me. I am not speaking Welsh, though indeed it is on the…

— Margiad Evans

“Old.  Old is relative, girl.  No, what makes them special is that they are books from history.”

— Hannah Crow

For my mother, everything stands in relation to her Welshness; the fact she married an Englishman seems to be something of an issue. She's…

— Ben Miller

“She had an English boyfriend who called her more often than she needed to hear from him, a savings account, a mobile phone, an…

— Rosie Thomas

“You're all Helen talks about. She's been reading Welsh history books and plaguing the family with accounts of Owain Glynd and something called the…

— Lisa Kleypas

“The first thing that strikes the historian, as he surveys the written records of the Anglo-Saxons, is that they were a litigious people.”

— Daniel Hannan

“And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely. 'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Mrs. Lynde says Mrs. Wrights grandfather stole a sheep but Marilla says we mustent speak ill of the dead. Why mustent we, Anne? I…

— L.M. Montgomery

“But he didn’t seem surprised to see her. ‘Hey.’ ‘Hey, yourself.’ Okay, that was stupid. Her grandmother used to say Hey, yourself. Great, she…

— Suzanne Brockmann