Carts Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

— Carl Sandburg

Slang is a poor man's poetry

— John Moore

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

— Anthony Burgess

Sometimes if you talk trash, you end up taking out the garbage.

— Len Elmore

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the…

— George Eliot

“Slang is the suitcase of the damned, my dear. CHECK IT.”

— Heather Cocks

What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“You rotten son of a bitch what are you doing in here off your filthy beat?” “Don’t be insulting just because you want to…

— Hemingway Ernest

Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.

— John Galsworthy

I write in American slang.

— Norman Spinrad

“Martin had a period of relishing the Boston thug-writer George V. Higgins, author of The Friends of Eddie Coyle . Higgins’s characters had an…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I am a greaser," Sodapop chanted. "I am a JD and a hood. I blacken the name of our fair city. I beat up…

— S.E. Hinton