Quotes by Slang The downtrodden are the great creators of slang. Anthony Burgess downtrodden slang creator I know you like the way I am freakin' it. Big L slang hip-hop way 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 slang elegance imagine Correct English is the slang of prigs. George Eliot slang language The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang. Gilbert K. Chesterton slang streams All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. Gilbert K. Chesterton slang metaphor literature I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell. J. B. Priestley slang two thinking In general, American slang is much better than English slang. The entire world picks up American slang. Jesse Sheidlower slang picks world Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang. John Galsworthy vigorous slang Trying to keep up with current slang sucks. Keith Waterhouse slang currents trying Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so. Mark Twain slang mouths sound I write in American slang. Norman Spinrad slang writing 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 occasional slang taste I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President. William Allen White slang fables president The earliest dictionaries were collections of criminal slang, swapped amongst ne'er-do-wells as a means of evading the authorities or indeed any outsider who might threaten the trade. Susie Dent outsider who slang trade Booze' was once a popular term in the slang or 'cant' of the criminal underworld, which may explain its rebellious overtones today. Susie Dent explain slang may today The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun. Dennis Farina words slang british fun I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms. Ben Schott loved always slang language