dialect quotes

Since our concern was speech, and speech impelled us To purify the dialect of the tribe And urge the mind to aftersight and foresight.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.2.

Her occasional pretty and picturesque use of dialect wordsthose terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

-Thomas Hardy
  The Mayor of Casterbridge, ch.20.

Most of their discourse was about hunting, in a dialect I understand very little.

- Samuel Pepys
  Diary entry, 22 Nov.