It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really... want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled wit...h men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The word of the moment is "classless," whether applied to Cockney Society photographers or sprigs of the aristocracy running littl...e bistros round the corner. Mick Jagger, alternately slurring yob and lisping lordling, is classlessness apotheosised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for fli...nging a pot of paint in the public's face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »