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“The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.”

Gay News Critics Brogues

Author:Stephen Fry

“What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.”

Lasts Degrees Mouths Ridiculous Folly Bulls Englishmen Despised Blunders Expect Nothing Brogues

Book:The drapier's letters (cont.) Miscellaneous tracts upon Irish affairs. Sermons

Source: The drapier's letters (cont.) Miscellaneous tracts upon Irish affairs. Sermons

“I love when people wear flowers in their own way, like when I see someone wearing a floral dress with brogues and a jacket. It's incongruous.”

People Way Flower Dresses Jackets Brogues

Author:Erdem Moral?oglu

“I'm not a big heel person anyways, I'll wear them on the red carpet, but I've always been the one who loves loafers and brogues.”

Persons Bigs Red Heels Carpet Red Carpet Loafers Brogues

Author:Jaime King

“Caitriona Balfe, who is Irish, is also in my movie. I asked her to play her Irish accent in the movie, but her own brogue is so faint that I had to keep pumping it up.”

Play Accents Brogues Irish Accent

Author:Jodie Foster

“Occasionally I like a really good pair of shoes. A pair of leather shoes from Gieves & Hawkes in England, Buckshot Brogue, they look really sick.”

Looks Sick England Shoes Pairs Leather Pair Of Shoes Brogues Leather Shoes

Author:Ian Astbury

“Jock Semple and I began appearing at speeches together and he came up to me on the start line in 1973 and planted a big kiss on my cheek. He said in his Scottish brogue: "Come on lass, let's get a wee bit of notoriety." He never said he was sorry but that was his way of saying it, I'm sure.”

Way Said Bigs Together Bits Lines Kissing Speech Sorry Cheeks Appearing Scottish Jocks Notoriety Brogues

Author:Kathrine Switzer

“At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.”

Thinking Years Whole Boys Careers Stage Style Clothes Rounds Shirts Phases Dressings T Shirt Shorts Really Weird Apparel Whole Year Brogues

Author:Florence Welch

“It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.”

Source: The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely

“HAPPINESS is ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED”

Love Real Happiness Peace Lost Love Brogues

Author:Jon Krakauer

“Buying a pair of shoes is one of the most optimistic acts I know, next to falling in love. I like nothing better than to see an old man wearing a brand new pair of brogues or cap-toed oxfords, preferably jaunty orange-brown, unscuffed, heels unworn. We want to be here tomorrow, but buying new shoes, like falling in love, says I plan on being here tomorrow.”

Knows Men Want Fall Next Plans Tomorrow Falling In Love Shoes Optimistic Brands Buying Brown Pairs Old Man Heels Orange Caps Brand New Oxford Pair Of Shoes New Shoes Brogues

Book:Outside the Dog Museum

Source: Outside the Dog Museum

“I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.”

Thinking Men Problem Regret Absence Suits Sock Wearing A Suit Brogues

Author:Graydon Carter

“People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.”

People Thinking Father Catholic Brogues

Author:Martin Short