Cockneys Quotes

• We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so.

  

  Richard Aldington
  • Church
  • Duty
  • Grows

• I've been acting a long time, and I can play a Cockney gangster or a womanizer in my sleep or standing on my head. But what I try to do is I try to find characters that are as far away from me as I possibly can and then make them real. A French Nazi is about as far away from me as I can possibly get without actually going to Mars or something.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Real
  • Character
  • Sleep

• I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Nightmare
  • Bourgeois
  • Cockneys

• Apollo has peeped through the shutter, And awaken'd the witty and fair; The boarding-school belle's in a flutter, The twopenny post's in despair; The breath of the morning is flinging A magic on blossom and spray, And cockneys and sparrows are singing In chorus on Valentine's day.

  

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed
  • School
  • Morning
  • Singing

• One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Speak
  • Speed
  • Cockneys