Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude tha >>

Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up >>

Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried >>

Quotations about Slang

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and >>

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted >>

Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of t >>

I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the language, and slang that you make up yourself. Everything else is apt to be passé before it gets into print.

Chandler, Raymond