Dialect Quotes

“The sky blue blue, Mr. Wiggins.”

— Ernest J. Gaines

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

— Henry Sweet

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

— Doris Lessing

“He’s more a shape in a drape than a hep cat”

— Sara Sheridan

“Time to silence the Hegelian Dialect”

— Dean Cavanagh

“A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy.”

— Max Weinreich

...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect.

— Harry Reid

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

— Thomas Carlyle

So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

— Emily Carr

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

— Mason Cooley

Obama a ‘light-skinned’ African-American ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.

— Harry Reid

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

— Emily Carr

'Welcome...' was a challenging role for me. Be it the look or the dialect, every bit of it was new and exciting.

— Amrita Rao

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

— Thomas Hardy

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

— Kevin Bacon

Bilingual films come with a certain inbuilt practical problem with respect to the setting of the story and the dialect.

— Mani Ratnam

My husband and I speak an ancient language called grammatical English, and the kids speak a strange dialect which is difficult to…

— Teresa Bloomingdale

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them…

— Eric Kandel

There's a big difference between when I'm Tom and when I'm Conchita. Conchita uses very proper German; Tom talks in an Austrian…

— Conchita Wurst

What is jazz? It, It's almost like asking, What is French? Jazz is a musical language. It's a musical dialect that actually…

— Branford Marsalis

You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of…

— Lake Bell

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There…

— Archie Panjabi

I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I moved to…

— Kim Dickens

I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's…

— Luke Pasqualino

But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my…

— Agnes Smedley

Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read…

— Anne Lamott

Jamie Keehn, our second Australian punter. Again, you have to learn the language. You just can't speak to those guys. You have…

— Les Miles

It's hard to imagine in this day and age the accent in Dalton Trumbo speaking voice, the Mid Atlantic mixture of an…

— Jay Roach

In terms of poetry, I worry about being far from the voice of my childhood, the rhythms of Ulster speech, and the…

— Nick Laird

I just really enjoyed all that kind of responsibility, I loved the fact that many people cared. I was doing 4 hours…

— Miles Teller

Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal.…

— Mary Alice Monroe

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it…

— John McWhorter

From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in…

— John Galt

There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled…

— Sarah Fielding

“A little later, as we talked of the Maniot dirges by which I was obsessed, I was surprised to hear this bloodshot-eyed…

— Patrick Leigh Fermor

“When I speak in Christian terms or Buddhist terms I'm simply selecting for the moment a dialect. Christian words for me represent…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how,…

— T. S. Eliot

He [Barack Obama] was light-skinned with no Negro dialect.

— Harry Reid

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

— Jon M. Chu

Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects…

— Ferran Adria