Accents Quote by Derek Landy

“I do not understand you.” “Then we are on very unequal terms, for I understand you perfectly well.” “Me? Yes; I cannot speak well…

— Jane Austen

“It's always the accent that drives you American women crazy. I'd no idea you fancied it, too…” he trailed off. “Oooh, fancied it. Say…

— Alice Clayton

“At least I know you are American.” Crap! “What? I bloody am not…mate.” “That could be the worst Australian accent I have ever heard.”…

— A. Kirk

“That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An…

— Terry Pratchett

I vowed to never use my American accent, and I didn't. Even going to get the paper in the morning to buying milk down…

— Lake Bell

Anyone that has come to America past the age of eighteen will be able to understand when I say that you can never shake…

— Martin Yan

Everybody be like, 'You got an accent.' And I look at them like, 'Damn, I thought I talked normal!'

— GloRilla

“Americans are interesting creatures. They criticize those who speak their language with a slight accent but have no issues with butchering most other languages,…

— Santino Hassell

It's hard to learn an American accent. Some of the Rs at the ends of words are incredibly hard.

— Janet McTeer

I used to think my accent was blocking me, and I hated it. Then I went to America, and every time someone said, 'What?…

— Skepta

Hey, I saw this old British movie, all the people spoke so different, you could hardly understand them. But everyone here speaks American as…

— Max Barry

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

— Brandon Sanderson