Accent Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The accent of one's birthplace persists in the mind and heart as much as in speech.”

— La Rouchefoucauld

He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.

— Orson Scott Card

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Logan February

“Nelson Mandela said it this way, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you…

— Christopher Marco

“As you speak I swear I can hear words being selected, one after another, from the word-box you carry around with you, and slotted…

— J.M. Coetzee

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he…

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Sidney Sheldon

“Nelson Mandela once said, ‘If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to…

— Trevor Noah

A voice and an accent are two very different things. The voice of a man is how he speaks from his heart, right in…

— James Purefoy

A man's love for his native land lies deeper than any logical expression, among those pulses of the heart which vibrate to the sanctities…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin