Slightly Vulgar Slang

Famous quotes containing the words slightly, vulgar and/or slang:

    “Uncle Matthew’s four years in France and Italy between 1914 and 1918 had given him no great opinion of foreigners. “Frogs,” he would say, “are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.””
    —Nancy Mitford (1904–1973)

    “Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.”
    —Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953)

    “All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)