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Dialect Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and…
- READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and…
More Dialect Quotes
- The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. — Mason Cooley
- I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I… — Mark Twain
- The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles. — Henry Sweet
- But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
- When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never… — Flannery O'Connor
- I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought… — Virginia Heffernan
- Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy — Robin Tunney