Always Quote by Susie Dent

There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the gang.' What that means is that…

— David Crystal

The street slang I be speakin in code. Kick in the do's, freakin the flow 'til the speakers explode.

— Talib Kweli

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

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

— Ramandeep Singh

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

— John Galsworthy

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

— Carl Sandburg

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

Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.

— Keith Waterhouse

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…

— Ricky Jay

Slang has different functions: many of the words we use are playful and a lot are tribal - we speak the same way as…

— Susie Dent

My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China,…

— China Mieville

I write in American slang.

— Norman Spinrad