Slang Quotes

Gilbert K. Chesterton

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.

Literature

Metaphor

Slang

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George Eliot

Correct English is the slang of prigs.

Language

Slang

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J. B. Priestley

I know only two words of American slang, ‘swell’ and ‘lousy’. I think ‘swell’ is lousy, but ‘lousy’ is swell.

Slang

Thinking

Two

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Big L

I know you like the way I am freakin’ it. I talk with slang and I’m never gonna stop speakin’ it.

Hip Hop

Slang

Way

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William Allen White

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.

Fables

President

Slang

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Norman Spinrad

I write in American slang.

Slang

Writing

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Jesse Sheidlower

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

Picks

Slang

World

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Mark Twain

Slang in a woman’s mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

Mouths

Slang

Sound

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John Galsworthy

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

Slang

Vigorous

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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.

Occasional

Slang

Taste

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