Anglo Saxon Quotes - Page 3

• It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sex, Dirty, Writing

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Second Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.195, Vintage

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• This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Mistake, Outlook On Life, People

  Patricia Highsmith (2008). “The Talented Mr. Ripley”, p.65, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For Dicey, writing in 1885, and for me reading him some seventy years later, the rule of law still had a very English, or at least Anglo-Saxon, feel to it. It was later, through Hayek's masterpieces "The Constitution of Liberty" and "Law, Legislation and Liberty" that I really came to think this principle as having wider application.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  "The Path to Power". Book by Margaret Thatcher, 1995.

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• 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 quality of detective novels.

  Umberto Eco

  Country, Special, Quality

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• Every wave of immigrants who came [to America] were treated pretty badly, but when they all finally became integrated, all of us became Anglo-Saxons.

  Noam Chomsky

  America, Wave, Integrated

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Distance, Native American, White

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• It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living animals are expressed with words of Germanic origin-calf (German 'Kalb'), swine (G. 'Schwein'), and ox (G. 'Ochse')-because the servants who guarded them were the conquered Anglo-Saxons. The names of the meats are of Romance origin-veal (French 'veau'), pork (F. 'porc') and beef (F. 'boeuf')-because those who enjoyed them were the conquering Norman masters.

  Kató Lomb

  Animal, Names, Two

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• America is a nation that lies to itself about who and what it is. It is a nation of minorities ruled by a minority of one-it thinks and acts as if it were a nation of white Anglo-Saxons and Protestants.

  Harold Cruse

  Lying, Thinking, White

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• Though I like the various forms of football in the world, I don't think they begin to compare with these two great Anglo-Saxon ball games for sophisticated elegance and symbolism. Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed. With football we are back to the monotonous clashing armor of the brontosaurus.

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Football, Baseball

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• The truth is that the materialistic paternalism of the present day, if allowed to go on unchecked, will rapidly make of America one huge "Main Street," where spiritual adventure will be discouraged and democracy will be regarded as consisting in the reduction of all mankind to the proportions of the narrowest and least gifted of the citizens. God grant that there may come a reaction, and that the great principles of Anglo-Saxon liberty may be rediscovered before it is too late!

  John Gresham Machen

  Spiritual, Adventure, America

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• There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a true image of the Anglo-Saxon mind, or at least an echo of that consciousness which considered transcience and loss to be part of the human estate; it was a world in which life was uncertain and the principal diety was fate or destiny or "wyrd."

  Peter Ackroyd

  Fate, Loss, Destiny

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• [Robinson Crusoe] is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe: the manly independence, the unconscious cruelty, the persistence, the slow yet efficient intelligence, the sexual apathy, the calculating taciturnity.

  James Joyce

  Persistence, Independence, Apathy

  "Daniel Defoe". Book by James Joyce, translated from Italian manuscript and edited by Joseph Prescott, pp. 24-25, 1964.

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• There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of these terms seems quite accurate. There is no English equivalent for the term, just as there is no Anglo-Saxon counterpart of that essentially Gallic individual, the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Cities, Gourmet, Flavor

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• The US and UK governments' relentless backing for the global spread of genetically modified seeds was in fact the implementation of a decades long policy of the Rockefeller Foundation since the 1930's, when it funded Nazi eugenics research - i.e. mass-scale population reduction, and control of darker-skinned races by an Anglo-Saxon white elite. As some of these circles saw it, war as a means of population reduction was costly and not that efficient.

  F. William Engdahl

  War, Mean, Eugenics

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• Either the Anglo-Saxon race will possess the Pacific slope or the Mongolians will possess it. We have this day to choose... whether legislation shall be in the interest of the American free laborer or for the servile laborer from China... You cannot work a man who must have beef and bread, and would prefer beer, alongside a man who can live on rice.

  James G. Blaine

  Beer, Men, Race

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• As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the straight nose that ancient Anglo-Saxons had graciously passed on to him. Everything about him suggested valor and power and a firm handshake.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Summer, War, Hero

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.38, Scholastic Inc.

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• Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

  Seamus Heaney

  People, Behaviour, Path

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “New Selected Poems 1988-2013”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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• British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of Assyria on the fall of Sumeria in 721 B.C. ... They further believe that the future can be foretold by the measurements of the Great Pyramid, which probably means it will be big and yellow and in the hand of the Arabs. They also believe that if you sleep with your head under the pillow a fairy will come and take all your teeth.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Believe, Fall

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• The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

  H. G. Wells

  Government, Genius, Action

  H.G. Wells (2015). “Annotated The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance with English Grammar Exercises: by H.G. Wells (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.41, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The most identifiable trait of Anglo-Saxons is that we always mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

  Argus Hamilton

  Memories, Mistake, Short Memory

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• The basic aggregate measure of gearing or leverage is telling us that today's advanced economies' operating systems are more heavily dependent on private sector credit than anything we have ever seen before. Furthermore, this pattern is seen across all the advanced economies, and isn't just a feature of some special subset (e.g. the Anglo-Saxons).

  Alan M. Taylor

  Special, Credit, Patterns

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In every age states of varying size and constitution and at every level of development have found naval warfare to be one of their most formidable and expensive tasks. Ships have always been large, costly and complicated, and warships much more complicated and costly than any others. Scholars are nowadays inclined to emphasize the power, wealth and sophistication of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and there is not more striking illustration of this than the advanced and elaborate administrative structures of the early English navy.

  Nicholas Rodger

  Illustration, Naval Warfare, Navy

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