Quotes by Dialect A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort. Thomas Carlyle dialect pedants stupid Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. Thomas Hardy dialect beast mark One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body. Timothy Leary dialect soul world Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so. William Labov dialect hundred years The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles. Henry Sweet dialect educated london circles «123