List Of Slang Quotes

I Know Only Two Words Of American Slang, 'swell' And 'lousy'. I Think 'swell' Is Lousy, But 'lousy' Is Swell.

The Most Vulgar Slang Is Scarcely Worse Than The Attempted Elegance Which Those Unused To Good Society Imagine To Be The Evidence Of Cultivation.

Slang Is Vigorous And Apt. Probably Most Of Our Vital Words Were Once Slang.

Correct English Is The Slang Of Prigs.

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.

All Slang Is Metaphor, And All Metaphor Is Poetry.

The One Stream Of Poetry Which Is Continually Flowing Is Slang.

The Downtrodden Are The Great Creators Of Slang.