English Slang Sayings

#1. He looked as if he'd got a lot of pleasure out of going ten rounds with your grandmother and making sure she went the whole distance.

Richard Brautigan

#2. Hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

Lionel Shriver

#3. My best friend Madison keeps a list on her phone of all of the different English slang that I say, so she has kind of like a translator so she can understand without having to ask me, "What on Earth are you talking about when you say 'nackered'?"

Emma Watson

#4. I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

Andrew Hill

#5. Correct English is the slang of prigs ...

George Eliot

#6. 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,

#7. Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back, I hope you feel it.

Alanis Morissette

#8. Australians are descended from a boatload of English convicts, right? So two hundred years in isolation at the bottom of the planet is plenty of time for the language to evolve into some sort of double-speak prison slang.

Elle Lothlorien

#9. After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#10. 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

#11. If you think about America, it is about getting your backpack on and heading out.

Nick Frost

#12. Some were scattered about the ring, one or two went in the sawdust tub, one I spat out as I fell, and I am thundering sure I swallowed a couple

Johnny Basham

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

Jesse Sheidlower

#14. Fairytales teach us that love is beauty, happiness, and faith. Life teaches us that sometimes we can feel hurt, useless, and lost. Sometimes we lose the ones we love. Sometimes we just can't handle the pain. And sometimes we just have to say goodbye.

Dannielle Wicks

#15. Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.

Jenna Elfman

#16. If you have Jesus Christ, then you are no longer a slave to the forces of this sinful world; you are untouchable and unstoppable.Romans 8:15

Felix Wantang

#17. The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

Aristotle.

#18. An Egyptian medical scroll dating back at least 1,500 years BCE recommended treating migraines by using an electric catfish. In other cultures, electric eels were wrapped around a migraineur's head to ease the pain.

Carolyn Bernstein

#19. She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else

Jonathan Safran Foer