Dialect Quote by Thomas Carlyle Download Open image “A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.” — Thomas Carlyle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dialect Pedants Stupid
Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of… — Henry Mackenzie Copy Share Image
Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The perfidious, savage, disdainful, stupid, slothful, inhospitable, stupid English. — Julius Caesar Scaliger Copy Share Image
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might… — Nolan North Copy Share Image
“It’s not all “molly” and “asshat.” The etymologies of some words are, for the lexicographer and average joe alike, boring.” — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“I’m afraid my wife picked up a number of, er, colorful expressions from the Yanks and such,” Frank offered, with a nervous smile. “True,”… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various regional dialects… — Jia Zhangke Copy Share Image
You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles… — Lake Bell Copy Share Image
From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is… — John Galt Copy Share Image
I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was. — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
I am lucky to have been gifted with a good ear and the ability to mimic. If I can hear it... I can replicate… — Robin Atkin Downes Copy Share Image
I know how a Manipuri is different from a Mizo or someone from Shillong. It's culturally very different... the food is also very different,… — Sayani Gupta Copy Share Image
If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I began to think that melancholy was a dialect that only some people knew-or could even hear-and in my conversations, I sought these people… — Virginia Heffernan Copy Share Image
I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the… — Andrew Scott Copy Share Image
I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode… — Seth MacFarlane Copy Share Image
