Admirable Quote by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

— John Galsworthy

Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

— C. S. Lewis

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

A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

— Thomas Carlyle

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

— Thomas Hardy

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

— Carl Sandburg

“To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.”

— Greg Carlson

People in a temper often say a lot of silly, terrible things they mean.

— Penelope Gilliatt

An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

— Mason Cooley

Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.

— Keith Waterhouse

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

— Edmund Wilson

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton