Black Country Accent

Famous quotes containing the words black, country and/or accent:

    Don’t look now, God, we’re all right.
    All the suicides are eating Black Bean Soup;
    the Dalmatians, our turnip, our spotted parasite
    snoozles in her chair.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Don: I’m not going near that country club.
    Wick: Why not?
    Don: They’re all a bunch of hypocrites. I don’t like to be whispered about—”Look who’s here from New York, the Birnam brothers. Or rather the nurse and the invalid.”
    Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)