Anglo Saxon Language Quotes

#1. as the descendants of the Normans finally amalgamated with the English natives, the Anglo-Saxon language reasserted itself; but in its poverty it had to borrow hundreds of French words (literary, intellectual, and cultural) before it could become the language of literature.

Richard A. LaFleur

#2. To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices.

Rex Stout

#3. There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

Horace Bushnell

#4. Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?

John Mortimer

#5. Thank you." Logan narrowed his eyes, and Tate said, "You're always here when I need you the most." Logan

Ella Frank

#6. Lack of ownership over your anger can incorrectly absolve you of all responsibility and so keep you stuck in the anger.

Sam Owen

#7. for cleanliness, that's a dirty

Terry Hayes

#8. Was at a good point, even though I hadn't even started it. Then I set off

Elena Ferrante

#9. If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.

Lydia Davis

#10. These days we are experiencing an unprecedented Anglo-Saxon bias against foreign terms.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#11. Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.

Martin Freeman

#12. There's something infinitely fascinating or fatal about a woman behind the wheel.

Ahmed Mostafa

#13. The kids can see that there are more parts to me than just being their mom; I wear a couple of different hats and have other roles to play.

Laura Leighton

#14. It is a peculiarity of the English language that while most fish swim in schools, herring swim in shoals, a word of the same meaning derived from the same Anglo-Saxon root.

Mark Kurlansky