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Slang Quotes

1.
I know you like the way I am freakin' it. I talk with slang and I'm never gonna stop speakin' it.
Big L

Authors on Slang Quotes: Gilbert K. Chesterton George Eliot Anthony Burgess William Allen White Norman Spinrad Samuel Taylor Coleridge Mark Twain J. B. Priestley Emily Post Jesse Sheidlower Keith Waterhouse Big L John Galsworthy
2.
The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
Anthony Burgess

3.
I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
J. B. Priestley

4.
Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.
John Galsworthy

5.
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

6.
The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

7.
Correct English is the slang of prigs.
George Eliot

8.
I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.
William Allen White

9.
The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.
Emily Post

10.
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

11.
I write in American slang.
Norman Spinrad

12.
Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.
Mark Twain

13.
Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.
Keith Waterhouse

14.
In general, American slang is much better than English slang. The entire world picks up American slang.
Jesse Sheidlower