Candor Quote by Anonymous

The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi,"…

— Emily Post

“Prattling gabblers, lickorous gluttons, freckled bittors, mangy rascals, shite-a-bed scoundrels, drunken roysters, sly knaves, drowsy loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes,…

— Thomas Urquhart

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

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

People would say I looked like a man or something called a 'buttaface', which means everything good but her face, or 'potato head' was…

— Rumer Willis

“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a…

— William Shakespeare

All the donuts have names that sound like prostitutes

— Tom Waits

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

— Howard Fast

What do you call a man with no body and just a nose? Nobody nose.

— Anonymous

“The vocabulary of flattery and insult is continually enlarged at the expense of the vocabulary of definition. As old horses go to the knacker's…

— CS Lewis

“Bumped uglies?” I repeated on a laugh. “You are a retired phone sex operator and the best you can come up with is ‘bump…

— Jessica Gadziala

'Ders' is something I've been called since I was six by neighbors and stuff growing up.

— Anders Holm

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

— Carl Sandburg