Appreciate Quote by Penelope Keith

We all speak the same language, but when someone can speak eloquently or with poise, it's striking. I like that.

— Melody Gardot

Most of us grew up speaking a language that encourages us to label, compare, demand, and pronounce judgments rather than to be aware of…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

I didn't know we'd been tagged as posh. I went to a state school in London, so maybe people think I have a posh…

— Grace Chatto

I do speak well as I went to a posh school. But I come from no real breeding.

— Michael McIntyre

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no…

— George Bernard Shaw

I got so much negative feedback about my accent. People saying, 'Yeah, you need to go to elocution lessons.'

— Edith Bowman

I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.

— Maurice Druon

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

— Moliere

My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without…

— Pete Wentz

I was teased at school for having a posh voice even though there was nothing posh about us.

— Alexander Armstrong

Some languages are musical in themselves, so that it is pleasant to hear any one read or converse in them, even though we do…

— Horace Mann

When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.

— Kristin Scott Thomas