Dialect Quotes
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Dialect Quotes & Sayings
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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth
— Rudyard Kipling
I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.
— John Lloyd Young
America is ready to elect its first African American President, especially one with light-skin and and no Negro dialect.
— Mitch McConnell
The Canadian dialect of English ... seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.
— Lister Sinclair
When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.
— Flannery O'Connor
To creative people, the compendium of the white man's dialect are unfashionable, because their creations are more than what the tongue could say.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.
— Jack Nicholson
A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy.
— Max Weinreich
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
— Doris Lessing
In the philosophical dialect, a cynic takes an insult as a compliment since opposition is already his style.
— Criss Jami
Time to silence the Hegelian Dialect
— Dean Cavanagh
The sky blue blue, Mr. Wiggins.
— Ernest J. Gaines
A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
— Thomas Carlyle
" ... light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect."
— Harry Reid
Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.
— Sterling K. Brown
Fuckyou-ish?" "The English dialect of the ancient language 'fuckyou.' Very old. Dignified even.
— Celia Kyle
Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.
— Geoff Zanelli
I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.
— Peter Robinson
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 out.
— Virginia Heffernan
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
The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.
— Henry Sweet
An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.
— Mason Cooley
Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.
— Jon M. Chu
He's more a shape in a drape than a hep cat
— Sara Sheridan
I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.
— John Lloyd Young
