Always Quote by Susie Dent

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

— John Galsworthy

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

— Ramandeep Singh

Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.

— Keith Waterhouse

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

— Carl Sandburg

Slang is really coded talk. I can say a few things, in front of somebody, that only people who know what I'm saying are…

— E-40

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

Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short…

— Ernest Hemingway

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

I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer…

— Tom Waits

Slang has always moved this way. From Cockney rhyming slang to codes swapped among highwaymen, they're tribal badges of identity, bonding mechanisms designed to…

— Susie Dent

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are…

— James Webb Young

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

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich