“Gods were preserved but languages were exterminated: thus was the conqueror’s will”

“Christian monks and nuns were, in effect, the guardians of culture, as they were virtually the only people who could read and write before the fourteenth century. It is interesting therefore that most of the native English culture they preserved is not in Latin, the language of the church, but in Old English, the language of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.”

“Alfred believed that the real and the true were a minority that the world was bent on exterminating.”

“Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.”

“But though there were different names for God in all the different languages in the world and God understood what all the people whoprayed said in their different languages still God remained always thesame God and God's real name was God.”

“God! The sexiest three words in the English language, 'you were right'. What woman doesn't love to hear that?”