Slang Quotes: top 51 famous quotes about Slang

Slang Quotes & Sayings

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The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth — Rudyard Kipling

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

Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang. — Amit Kalantri

Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal — John Henry Newman

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never. — Stephen King

It's funny when people say something is "unreal" about something that is, in reality, real. I'm so guilty of it, it's real! — Ethan Luck

Rolf! what? are you really rolling on the floor laughing? well, please stay down there for a sec while I KICK YOUR ASS. — David Levithan

Slang is a foul pool at which every dunce fills his bucket, and then sets up as a fountain. — Ambrose Bierce

Who originates the latest slang terms that are, seemingly overnight, known to every black youth across the country? — Donald Jeffries

What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang. — Ike Turner

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

The slang for the rectum is "prison wallet". — Mary Roach

I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets. — George Eliot

I am getting rather astonishing in my Italian conversation. I believe I talk a mixture of Dante and the worst modern slang. — Oscar Wilde

I love the inappropriateness of age-old wisdom in modern slang. These things are all so wonderful to me. — Doseone

Slang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps. — Ambrose Bierce

The slang "you ain't seen nothing yet" is completely apropos in regards to instrumentation for marine bioacoustics research. — Whitlow W.L. Au

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms. — Ben Schott

<3. You think that looks like a heart? If you do, that's only because you've never seen scrotum. — David Levithan

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

people with autism must survive in an outside world where "special needs" is playground slang for "retarded, — Naoki Higashida

Adapt your style, if you wish, to admit the color of slang or freshness of neologism, but hang tough on clarity, precision, structure, grace. — William Safire

Slang is the suitcase of the damned, my dear. CHECK IT. — Heather Cocks

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

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun. — Dennis Farina

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

Slang is the writer's palette of colors. — Chuck Palahniuk

So I turned on the tube (throwback slang from the Nifty Fifties; televisions no longer have tubes) and channel-surfed for awhile. On — Stephen King

explained Conway, "is a slang word meaning a lazy fellow, a good-for-nothing. — James Hilton

There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson. — Victor Hugo

Giving it those ones' is Delhi School of Architecture slang for 'faking it big time'. — Anupama Chopra

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

If the plural for marble, marbles, is slang for sanity, then what does it mean to get lost in a room of marble statues? — Bridgette Bates

I like slang words, straight to the point.
I like words of wisdom, straight to the heart. — Toba Beta

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

Keep my planets in orbit,
Never forfeit or quit,
Move forward ...
I talk with the awkward slang,
I walk with the Wu-Tang. — RZA

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. — Anthony Burgess

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

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

Well, killing da already scientifically dead is not murder.
We hav a slang term por it...
Dobol dead. — Geonard Yleana

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

The guy said industry slang for flight attendant was Space Waitress. Or Air Mattress. — Chuck Palahniuk

The Dauthless have the wierdest slang. Pansycake, Nose ... is there a term for The Candor?"
"Of course."Uriah grins."Jerks — Veronica Roth

Slang just makes people more stupid, that's all, — Tom Robbins

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect. — Carl Sandburg

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

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

Hobos' (a slang term that combines the words 'hope' and 'bowl of beans given to me for free by a woman who then initiated intercourse') — Patton Oswalt

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

It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today. — Henry David Thoreau