Accents Quote by Anne Rice

“Their perfect English accents. As if serving all their vowels on a fine set of tongs.”

— Colum McCann

“Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.”

— Sidney Sheldon

“I wish I could go visit them and talk in my own language, the English I knew before I grew thorns on my tongue.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“We all learn other languages through our mother tongue.”

— P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Wise men think and speak alike.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“People, they misunderstood the word “accent.” They thought accents were those things everybody else had.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“He and I speak the same language...we just have different accents.”

— Jenn Cooksey

“My heart is a place with no native tongue.”

— Logan February

“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We, Brandy and Alfa and me, we've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first. I…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Here I'd been thinking that just because someone spoke English we'd understand each other. But I guess there are languages within languages, and those…

— Christopher Barzak

“We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.”

— Diogenes Laertius