(46 quotes found)
“There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pale lips than can enter an ear. It is both the grandeur and the pain of the remoter moods that they avoid the pathway of sound.”
Thomas Hardy
“It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.”
William Shakespeare
“Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.”
Cleo Moore
“They seem to be charmed by my Southern accent.”
“Ever since I was a little boy, I’ve been intrigued by accents, ... It gets so natural that if I hear something, I can usually mimic it.”
Hunter Gomez
“Latinos are very sensitive to different accents. I sort of lost my Mexican accent, and that's what they were looking for in this case — some sort of neutral accent that could be understood on both coasts and in different Hispanic communities: Puerto Ricans on the East Coast, Cubans in Fort Lauderdale and Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles.”
Jorge Ramos
“How many ages henceShall this our lofty scene be acted overIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!”
“I have traveled more than any one else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent”
Mark Twain
