“Her voice was completely English. For some reason I had expected a foreign accent; but I could place this exactly. It was my own; product of boarding school, university, the accent of what a sociologist once called the Dominant Hundred Thousand.”

“Robin Hood: Because unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with a English accent.”

“…for the Dasavatharam’, she was my coach for my American accent. She had just returned from the US and was the perfect medium to help her father's Madrasi accent to be transformed into a yankee accent. She was a bully. She made me do many retakes in the dubbing. And after dubbing, she wanted me to correct some more of my accent. Everyone thought that was taking it a little too far.”

“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.”

“A carefully preserved English accent also upped the fear factor.”

“You are avake, yah?" said a voice in a horribly recognizable accent.
"Yah," I muttered, rubbing my head. "And you are still a jerk, yah?”

“He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.”

“There's a southern accent, where I come from.
The young 'uns call it country, the Yankees call it dumb.”

“Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent… it
was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.”

“A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there.”