Slang Quotes

65 quotes by 59 authors

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. — Anthony Burgess
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop — Redman
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time.… — Ernest Hemingway
It is a mass language only in the same sense that its baseball slang is born of baseball players. That is, it is a language… — Raymond Chandler
I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make… — Raymond Chandler
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling
The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the… — Tom Robbins
Gay is a subculture, a slur, a set of gestures, a slang, a look, a posture, a parade, a rainbow flag, a film genre, a… — Jack Donovan
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and… — Ambrose Bierce
In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang. — Ike Turner
Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity.… — Joseph Furphy
Sin does not always drive us to drink; more often it drives us to exhaustion. Tiredness is equally as debilitating as drunkenness. Burnout is slang… — Mike Yaconelli
I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then… — Cornell Woolrich
Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not… — Leland Ryken
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing… — Ron Rash
I write in American slang. — Norman Spinrad
Scripture is the thing I like to share with people more than anything. My prayer reality is quite kooky. I have this very unique dialogue… — Stephen Baldwin
That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use… — Ricky Jay

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