I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

-Benchley, Robert Charles
  After1903ö What?

L'accent du pays o  u' l'on est ne¤   demeure dans l'esprit et dans le c½ur comme dans le langage. The accent of the place in which one was born lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one's speech.

-La Rochefoucauld, Fran c° ois, 6th Duc de
  Maximes, no.342.

I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.

-McGregor, Ewan
In In Style, Sep.

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

-Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
  Reginald,'Reginald onWorries'.

There is a formal poetry perfect only in form†the number of syllables, the designated and required stresses of accent, the rhymes if wantedöthey come off with the skill of a solved crossword puzzle.

-Sandburg, Carl
Quoted inTheComplete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1986),'Notes for a Preface'.

Even though his tongue acquire the Southern knack, he will still have a strong Scots accent of the mind.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  Memories and Portraits, ch.1,'The Foreigner at Home'.