Cockney Quotes

“Derek.' There was an odd smile on her face. 'Your cockney is showing.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You

“Derek cuddled his daughter against his shoulder and spoke in a mixture of baby words and cockney, a language only she seemed to understand.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You

“A pair of workman’s brogans encased my feet, and for trousers I was furnished with a pair of pale blue, washed-out overalls, one leg of which was fully ten inches shorter than the other. The abbreviated leg looked as though the devil had there clutched for the Cockney’s soul and missed the shadow for the substance.”
― Jack London, The Sea Wolf

“Writing books about whores... I'll bet you newer... joined giblets wiv a man in your lily-white life.'

Dr. Hindley and Worthy began to reprove him, but Sara smiled quizzically. ' "Joined giblets?" ...I've never heard it put that way before.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You

“Wiv difficulty 'an injinuity. Jest bein' smart, like.”
― Jennifer Worth, Farewell to the East End: The Last Days of the East End Midwives

“He was stocky and tall, with a clean-shaven jaw and blondish-red hair. He removed his mask to reveal an attractive but battered face, with a crooked nose and a lopsided smile. There was a healthy dose of cockney in his accent. He pronounced the "v" in "very" as if it were a "w"- just as Derek Craven did in his occasional lapses. Although there was something secretive and guileful in his light blue eyes, his grin was so winning that Sara decided she had nothing to fear from him. Another cockney in well-tailored clothes, she mused.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Dreaming of You

“I wasn’t really sure I could take a three-foot beaver, let alone one with a cockney accent.”
― Sarsapariller, Marriage And Monsters - An Eschatological Romance