Culture Quote by Greg Carlson

“Never let it be said that dialect is a reflection of intellect. On the contrary, it is a reflection of the deep traditional values…

— Patricia H. Graham

“I believe it is important to preserve dialects as well as the regional accents of an area. Oral tradition is still necessary and by…

— Patricia H. Graham

“The most elegant of the dialects belongs to those who know only one language, who do not mix with Persians and who do not…

— Mahmud al-Kashgari

“Yet I had not been many days shut up with them before I began to be ashamed of my first judgment, when I had…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The true mark of English conversation is not being able to tell when you've been insulted. I think the more sophisticated society becomes, the…

— Christopher Fowler

“Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

“it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual aristocracies; it…

— G.K. Chesterton

“They had wandered in a defeated continent of the vulgar world, where vulgarity had lost its power and its pride, and had to repeat…

— Rebecca West

“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

“There are, I know, those who prefer not to go beyond the impression, however accidental, which an old work makes on a mind that…

— C.S. Lewis

“Those who are ignorant of history and the evolution of taste are apt at every turn to make the present age their standard, and…

— Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury

“Accent is the last great redoubt of prejudice. The race relations industry, that inquisition of fairness and sensitivity, doesn't protect against discrimination by funny…

— A.A. Gill