Slang Quotes

• Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Dialogue

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

  

  William Allen White
  • President
  • Written
  • Fables

• If you use a colloquialism or a slang word or phrase, simply use it; do not draw attention to it by enclosing it in quotation marks. To do so is to put on airs, as though you were inviting the reader to join you in a select society of those who know better.

  

  William Strunk, Jr.
  • Attention
  • Air
  • Quotations

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

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Moving
  • Rap
  • Quitting

• 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 use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

  

  Ricky Jay
  • Language
  • Common
  • Term

• Correct English is the slang of prigs.

  

  George Eliot
  • English
  • Correct
  • Slang

• Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.

  

  Daniel Kehlmann
  • Character
  • Problem
  • Terrible

• Hit records create slang, and if you create slang, you get into a broader conversation level.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Create
  • Records
  • Conversation