Essays Quote by George Eliot

“All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.” “There is correct English: that is not slang.” “I beg your pardon: correct English…

— George Eliot

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

— George Eliot

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

— John Galsworthy

I write in American slang.

— Norman Spinrad

Slang is a poor man's poetry

— John Moore

In general, American slang is much better than English slang. The entire world picks up American slang.

— Jesse Sheidlower

The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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…

— Raymond Chandler

Slang moves on so fast that most new words disappear soon after they are coined. But there is always something that sticks behind.

— Susie Dent

“I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think I heard…

— James Weldon Johnson

My life changed forever when I found out the word slang was actually slang for shortened language

— Ramandeep Singh

I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of…

— Scott Westerfeld