Contemporary-romance Quote by Elle Lothlorien

“Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn’t? I mean, I’m trying to figure out why I can’t…

— Elle Lothlorien

There's a part of me that's very stereotypically Australian, with the lingo, or for lack of a better way of putting it, the way…

— Patty Mills

Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a…

— Yael Stone

“Though harsh in other respects, prison would be an excellent place to learn a foreign language - total immersion, and you'd have the new…

— David Sedaris

With increasing frequency and growing vehemence, you hear people saying they are ashamed to be Australians.

— Hugh Mackay

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

— Geoffrey Rush

There are certain situations, when you're in America, when people understand you better without an Australian accent.

— Nikita Dutta

The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled.…

— Callan McAuliffe

My grandparents would never admit to being Tasmanian, but I think it's really great and funny. But I guess, in the past, Tasmanians just…

— Jessie Cave

I love Australia as a country. But we had a problem where, for whatever reason, President Barack Obama said that they were going to…

— Donald Trump

It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.

— Stephen Fry

One of the strongest prejudices that one has to overcome when one visits Australia is that created by the weird jargon than passes for…

— Valerie Desmond