Received Pronunciation Quotes

#1. At acting school people didn't speak like me. It was all received pronunciation - 'ow now brown cow.'

Ray Winstone

#2. The hallmark of originality is rejecting the default and exploring whether a better option exists. I've

Adam M. Grant

#3. Never ask a baker what went into a pie. Just eat.

George R R Martin

#4. You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.

Tom Winton

#5. In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

Bernard Bailyn

#6. Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.

Sam Francis

#7. Fear makes you stronger,

Marie Lu

#8. I would have gone to bed with him that night. If he had asked. If he had come and kissed me. Not for his sake, but for being alive's.

John Fowles

#9. The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.

Ezra Stiles

#10. If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.

Charles Saatchi

#11. Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those
Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose!
All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see
's been dubbed by [Us] into RP,
Received Pronunciation, please believe [Us]
your speech is in the hands of the Receivers.

Tony Harrison

#12. There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

Amity Shlaes

#13. There's a lot of sex. But it isn't about sex.

Peter Milligan