Quotes About The Normans

#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. Zandy Brandy scented lotion - like the Normans, drunk and with soft hands!

A.J. Lauer

#3. The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

Caleb Cushing

#4. The main body of Vikings were given lands in the Seine basin in exchange for protecting Paris. They settled into northern France and within a century were speaking a dialect of French and became known as the Normans.

Mark Kurlansky

#5. It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans ... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.

Julie Garwood

#6. That is thy home burning. That is the Normans' work, and never thee forget it!

Rosemary Sutcliff

#7. Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.

Nostradamus

#8. The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

John Lothrop Motley

#9. At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans.

Nostradamus

#10. Poems are word paintings. Poetry doesn't belong to time. That's why often you feel as if poems are speaking directly to you.

Salil Jha

#11. DI Cartwright: The cat is booby trapped? DI Quill: Welcome to my world.

Paul Cornell

#12. Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.

Kevin Brockmeier

#13. Blessed is the one who considers the poor!

Anonymous

#14. Normans both; but Norman or Saxon, the hospitality of Rotherwood must not be impeached: they are welcome, since they have chosen to halt; more welcome would they have been to have ridden further on their way.

Walter Scott

#15. One's lover is one's partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.

Philippa Gregory

#16. Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

John Tillotson

#17. Knowing this was the same man from last night now clad again in his hunky knightly armor was a strange aphrodisiac. Yeah, a hot look, no denying.

Angela Quarles

#18. Whoever heard of such a mixture of languages in one army, since there were French, Flemings, Frisians, Gauls, Sayonards, Lotharingians, Allemani, Bavarians, Normans, English, Scots, Aquitanians, Italians, Danes, Apulians, Iberians, Bretons, Greeks and Armenians.

Fulcher Of Chartres

#19. English is what you get from Normans trying to pick up Saxon girls.

Bryan Maloney

#20. Each word I write brings me closer to finding the right ones.

Ally Condie