Statements by famous poets about the Russian language. Statements about language

Statements by poets and writers about the Russian language

I.S. Turgenev (1818-1883)

In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language!
...it is impossible to believe that such a language was not given to a great people!

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors!
Handle this powerful tool with respect; in skillful hands it is capable of performing miracles.

N.V. Gogol (1809-1852)

You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and, truly, another name is even more precious than the thing itself.

There is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, would burst out from under the very heart, would seethe and vibrate so much as a well-spoken Russian word.

Our extraordinary language itself is a mystery. It contains all the tones and shades, all the transitions of sounds from the hardest to the most gentle and soft; it is limitless and, alive as life, can be enriched every minute...

K.G. Paustovsky (1892-1968)

We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language.

The Russian language is fully revealed in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone” and feel the hidden charm of our land.

True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language.

Among the magnificent qualities of our language there is one that is absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable.
It lies in the fact that its sound is so diverse that it contains the sound of almost all the languages ​​of the world.

There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.

(1754-1841)

Our language is excellent, rich, loud, strong, profound. We only need to know its value, delve into the composition and power of words, and then we will make sure that not his other languages, but he can enlighten them. This ancient, primordial language always remains the educator, the mentor of that meager one to whom he imparted his roots for planting a new garden.

It’s unbearable when gentlemen writers tear our ears with non-Russian phrases.

May zeal for the Russian word increase in both doers and listeners!

Where a foreign language is used more preferably than one’s own, where foreign books are read more than one’s own, there, with the silence of literature, everything withers and does not flourish.

Do and say what you please, gentlemen, lovers of other people's literature. But until we love our language, our customs, our upbringing, until then in many of our sciences and arts we will be far behind others. You need to live by your own mind, not someone else's.

Natural language is the soul of the people, the mirror of morals, a true indicator of enlightenment, an incessant preacher of deeds. The people rise, the language rises; The people are good, the language is good.

M.V. Lomonosov. A short guide to eloquence. 1748.

The language that the Russian state commands over a great part of the world, due to its power, has natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to any European language.

A. P. Sumarokov (1717-1777)

1759. To the senseless rhymers. Works, vol. IX, pp. 309, 310 - 311.

I love our beautiful language, and I would rejoice if, having recognized its beauty in it, Russian people practiced more than now and achieved success, and so that they would not blame the language, but their own negligence: but loving the Russian language, can I so praise the works that will they disgrace him? It’s better not to have any writers than to have bad ones. Our clerks have already completely ruined their spelling. And as for the language, which is typical for corruption, the Germans poured into it German words, French petimeters, our Tatar ancestors, Latin pedants, translators of the Greek Holy Scriptures: it is dangerous that the Cyrillics do not multiply Polish words in it. The Germans established our German grammar. But what spoils our language even more? bad translators, bad writers; and most of all, poor poets.

Fyodor Glinka (1786-1880)

I confess to you that as much as I dislike the former French writers, and especially the dramatic ones, I would like their language to be less common among us. He does the same harm to ours as an insignificant worm does to a beautiful, majestic tree, the roots of which are undermined.

Vissarion Belinsky (1811-1848).

The Russian language is extremely rich, flexible and picturesque for expressing simple, natural concepts... In the Russian language, sometimes, to express various shades of the same action, there are up to ten or more verbs of the same root, but of different types...
That the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world, there is no doubt about it.

A.S. Pushkin (1799-1837)

True taste does not consist in the unconscious rejection of such and such a word, such and such a turn of phrase, but in a sense of proportionality and conformity.

Read common folk tales, young writers, to see the properties of the Russian language.
“Objection to the article “Athenea”.” 1828

There are two kinds of nonsense: one comes from a lack of feelings and thoughts, replaced by words; the other is from the fullness of feelings and thoughts and the lack of words to express them.

The magazines condemned the words: clap, rumor and top as a failed innovation. These words are native Russian. “Bova came out of the tent to cool off and heard people’s rumors and horses tramping in the open field” ( The Tale of Bova Korolevich).
Clap is used colloquially instead of flapping, like a thorn instead of hissing:
He shot out a thorn like a snake.
(Ancient Russian poems)
It should not interfere with the freedom of our rich and beautiful language.
From the notes to the novel "Eugene Onegin". 1830

...It is not just the influence of foreign ideologies that is detrimental to our fatherland; education, or, better said, lack of education, is the root of all evil.
About public education. November 15, 1826

Vladimir Dal (1801-1872)

Is it possible to renounce one’s homeland and soil, from the basic principles and elements, trying to transfer the language from its natural root to a foreign one? in order to distort his nature and turn him into a parasite living on the juices of others?.. there is no way to dispute the self-truth that a living folk language, preserving in the freshness of life the spirit that gives the language perseverance, strength, clarity, integrity and beauty, should serve as... a treasury for the development of educated Russian speech.

You cannot joke with language, with human words, with speech with impunity; human verbal speech is... a tangible connection... between body and spirit; without words there is no conscious thought... without these material means in the material world the spirit cannot do anything, cannot even manifest itself...

We must study the simple and direct Russian speech of the people and assimilate it to ourselves, just as all living things assimilate good food and transform it into their blood and flesh...

How correctly K. Aksakov captured, when examining verbs, the vital, living force of our language! Our verbs in no way succumb to the dead spirit of such a grammar, which wants to force them to subordinate them to only external signs; they require recognition of their independent spiritual power... their meaning and meaning...

Language is the centuries-old work of an entire generation.

The language of the people is undoubtedly our most important and inexhaustible spring or mine, the treasury of our language...

If we begin to introduce Russian words gradually, at a place where they are clear in their very meaning, then they will not only understand us, but will even begin to adopt them from us.

We do not persecute with a general anathema all foreign words from the Russian language; we stand more for the Russian style and turn of phrase.

It seems as if such a revolution is now facing our native language. We begin to realize that we have been led into a slum, that we need to get out of it in a healthy way and pave a different path for ourselves. Everything that has been done hitherto, since the time of Peter the Great, in the spirit of distortion of language, all this, like an unsuccessful grafting, like a pin of heterogeneous seed, should dry out and fall off, giving room to the wildling, which needs to grow on its own roots, on its own juices, to be flavored with goodness. and care, and not a nozzle on top. If we say that the head is not waiting for the tail, then our head rushed so far somewhere to the side that it almost came off from the body; and if it is bad for shoulders without a head, then it is unselfish for a head without a body. Applying this to our language, it seems as if this head either has to come off completely and fall off, or come to its senses and come back. Russian speech faces one of two things: either it must be utterly destroyed, or, having come to its senses, it must turn to a different path, taking with it all the reserves abandoned in a hurry.

Volkonsky brothers

The “Russian part” of the modern written language of people who write quite competently is almost no different from the language they wrote in a hundred years ago. In "Hero of Our Time" there are only two expressions that are now outdated. The wall grew precisely from the accumulation of borrowings. If the influx of other people's words does not stop, then in 50 years Pushkin will be read with a dictionary. How then will the future Russia be able to feed on the healthy juices of its past? And will people who cannot read Pushkin already be Russian?

K.D. Ushinsky (1824-1871)

...The nature of the country and the history of the people, reflected in the Soul of man, were expressed in words. The man disappeared, but the word he created remained an immortal and inexhaustible treasury of the people's language; so every word of the language, every form of it is the result of human thought and feeling, through which the nature of the country and the history of the people are reflected in the word.

A.N. Tolstoy (1883-1945)

To handle language somehow means to think differently: inaccurately, approximately, incorrectly.

What is language? First of all, it is not only a way to express your thoughts, but also to create your thoughts.

Language has the opposite effect.
A person who turns his thoughts, his ideas, his feelings into language... he is also, as it were, permeated by this way of expression.

A.I. Kuprin (1870-1938)

The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.

Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture.
That is why studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing to do, but an urgent necessity.

A.M. Gorky (1868-1936)

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is enriched with amazing speed.

M.A. Sholokhov (1905-1984)

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word.

D.S. Likhachev (1906-1999)

The greatest value of a people is their language - the language in which they write, speak, and think.

V. Bazylev

Indigenous Russian words remember the entire world history, testify to this history, reveal its mysteries...

Poets about the Russian language

Never disdain the fatherly language,
And don't enter it
Someone else's, nothing;
But adorn yourself with your own beauty.

A.P. Sumarokov
Damage to the tongue. Works, vol. VII, p. 163

Metallic, sonorous, humming,
Our wild, accurate tongue!

N.M. Languages

Language is the confession of the people:

His nature is heard in him,
His soul and life are dear...

P.A. Vyazemsky

Word(1915)

The tombs, mummies and bones are silent,
Only the word is given life:
From ancient darkness, on the world graveyard,
Only the Letters sound.

And we have no other property!
Know how to take care
At least to the best of my ability, in days of anger and suffering,
Our immortal gift is speech.

I.A. Bunin

Words (1956)

There are many words on earth. There are daily words -
They show the blue of the spring sky.

There are night words that we talk about during the day
We remember with a smile and sweet shame.

There are words - like wounds, words - like judgment, -
They do not surrender and are not taken prisoner.

A word can kill, a word can save,
With a word you can lead the shelves with you.

In a word you can sell, and betray, and buy,
The word can be poured into striking lead.
But there are words for all words in our language:
Glory, Motherland, Loyalty, Freedom and Honor.

I don’t dare repeat them at every step, -
Like banners in a case, I treasure them in my soul.
Who often repeats them - I don’t believe him
He will forget about them in fire and smoke.

He won't remember them on the burning bridge,
They will be forgotten by someone else in a high position.
Anyone who wants to profit from proud words
Countless dust insults the heroes,
Those in dark forests and damp trenches,
Without repeating these words, they died for them.

Let them not serve as bargaining chips, -
Keep them in your heart as a golden standard!
And do not make them servants in small households -
Take care of their original purity.

When joy is like a storm, or grief is like night,
Only these words can help you!

V.S. Shefner

Russian language (1959)

I love my native language!
It is clear to everyone
He is melodious
He, like the Russian people, has many faces,
As our power, mighty.
If you want, write songs, hymns,
If you want, express the pain of your soul.
It’s like rye bread, it’s smelly,
As if earthly flesh is tenacious.
For large and small countries
He's for friendship
Given to the brotherhood.
He is the language of the moon and planets,
Our satellites and rockets.
On the council
At the round table
Speak it:
Unambiguous and direct
He is like the truth itself.
He is great, like our dreams,
Life-giving Russian language!

AND I. Yashin

Russian language (1966)

At your poor cradle,
Still barely audible at first,
Ryazan women sang,
Dropping words like pearls.

Under a dim tavern lamp
Wooden table droops
At a full untouched glass,
Like a wounded falcon, coachman.

You walked on broken hooves,
Burned in the fires of the Old Believers,
Was washed in tubs and troughs,
Waxwing on the stove like a cricket.

You, sitting on the late porch,
I turn my face to the sunset,
I took the ring from Koltsov,
I borrowed a ring from Kurbsky.

You, our great-grandfathers, are in captivity,
Having powdered my face with flour,
Grinded in a Russian mill
Visiting Tatar language.

You took a little German,
At least we could do more
So that they are not the only ones who get it
Scientific importance of land.

You, who smell like rotten sheepskin
And grandfather’s spicy kvass,
Written with a black splinter
And a white swan feather.

You are above the price and the rate -
In the year forty-one,
Then he wrote himself in a German dungeon
On weak lime with a nail.

The rulers also disappeared
Instantly and for sure
When they accidentally encroached
To the Russian essence of the language.

Y. V. Smelyakov

Courage

We know what's on the scales now
And what is happening now.
The hour of courage has struck on our clocks,
And courage will not leave us.
It's not scary to lie dead under bullets,
It's not bitter to be homeless,
And we will save you, Russian speech,
Great Russian word.
We will carry you free and clean,
We will give it to our grandchildren and save us from captivity
Forever!

A.A. Akhmatova

Our language has enough words in itself,
But there are not enough scribes on it.
Alone, following an unusual warehouse,
Draws the Russian Pallas to Germany
And I think that by doing so he gives her pleasure,
She takes the natural beauty from her face.
Another, having not learned to read and write as well as he should,
In Russian, he thinks, it’s impossible to say everything,
And, taking handfuls of strangers' words, he weaves a speech
With my own tongue, I only deserve to burn.
Or he translates word for word into a Russian syllable,
Which doesn’t look like itself in the update.
That stingy prose strives for heaven
And he himself does not understand his cunning.
He crawls in prose and verse, and they write letters,
Scolding himself, he gives the scribes the laws.

Whoever writes must clear his thoughts in advance
And first give yourself some light in that;
But many scribes do not talk about it,
They are only satisfied with the speeches they make.
The readers are meaningless, although they will not understand,
They marvel at them and think that there is a secret here,
And, covering my mind, reading in darkness,
The indistinct manner of a scribe is accepted as beauty.
There is no secret to writing madly,
Art is to correctly offer your style,
So that the creator's opinion is clearly imagined
And speeches would flow freely and in harmony.
A letter that the common people call literacy,
I usually speak with those who are absent,
It should be composed without any fuss and briefly,
As we simply say, so simply explained.
But whoever has not learned to speak correctly,
It’s not without difficulty for him to write a letter.
Words that appear before society
Though they are offered with a pen, or with their tongue,
Should be much more magnificently built,
And the rhetorical beauty would be included in them,
Which in simple words are at least unusual,
But the importance of speeches is necessary and decent
To explain reason and passions,
So that you can enter the hearts and attract people.
Nature shows us a happy path in this,
And reading opens the door to art.

Our tongue is sweet, pure, and magnificent, and rich,
But we put a good stock into it sparingly.
So that we do not dishonor him by ignorance,
We need to improve our entire warehouse at least a little.
There is no need for everyone to sweat over rhymes,
And everyone needs to be able to write correctly.
But is it right to demand from us a correct syllable?
The road to him in learning is closed.
As soon as you teach the warehouses a little,
Please write “Bova”, “Petra Zlaty Klyuchi”.
The clerk says: “The writing here is tender,
You will become a man if you only study diligently!”
And I think that you will be a man
However, you will never be able to read and write.
Even in the best handwriting, from the clerk's council,
Weave four letters into the word “leta”
And you’ll learn to write “the end” pretentiously
Believe me, you will never be a scribe.
Learn from those, no matter how many or few,
Whose zeal for art was jealous
And it showed them how wild this thought is,
That we do not have the wealth of language.
Be angry that we have few books, and make a fine:
“When there are no Russian books, who should I follow in degrees?”
However, you are more angry with yourself
Or on your father for not teaching you.
And if you had not lived your youth willfully,
You could be quite skilled in writing.
The hardworking bee takes
From everywhere she needs sweet honey,
And visiting a fragrant rose,
It also takes particles from manure into its honeycombs.
In addition, we have many spiritual books;
Who is to blame for the fact that you did not comprehend the psalms,
And, running along it, like a ship in a fast sea,
I rushed recklessly from end to end a hundred times.
Since “even”, “even” the custom has destroyed,
Who is forcing you to introduce them into your language again?
And what from antiquity is still irreplaceable,
That may be what you should be everywhere.
Do not imagine that our language is not the same as in books,
Which you and I call non-Russians.
He is the same, and if only he were different, how do you think?
Just because you don't understand it,
So what would be left with the Russian language?
Your thought is much farther from the truth.
Don’t know the sciences if you don’t love them, even forever,
And you need to know how to express thoughts, of course.

A.P. Sumarokov
1747. Epistle about the Russian language. 4 Works, vol. I, pp. 329 - 333.

The collection includes wise sayings and statements about the Russian language of great people said by Russian writers, scientists and philosophers, as well as representatives of other nations:

• The heavenly beauty of our language will never be trampled upon by cattle. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
• Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect; in skillful hands it is capable of performing miracles. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
• The language of a people is the best, never fading and ever-blooming flower of their entire spiritual life. Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky

• Take care of the purity of your language as a sacred thing! Never use foreign words. The Russian language is so rich and flexible that we have nothing to take from those who are poorer than us. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
• Language is the confession of the people, His soul and way of life are native. Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky.
• The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word. Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov
• In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how can one not fall into despair at the sight of everything that is happening at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people! Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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  Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture... Therefore, studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing better to do, but an urgent necessity. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
• The perception of other people's words, especially without necessity, is not enrichment, but damage to the language. Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov
• Language is the history of the people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why learning and preserving the Russian language is not an idle hobby with nothing to do, but an urgent necessity. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
• I do not consider foreign words good and suitable unless they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russified ones. We must protect our rich and beautiful language from damage. Nikolai Semenovich Leskov
• May there be honor and glory to our language, which in its very native richness, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud majestic river - it makes noise and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles like a gentle brook and sweetly pours into the soul, forming everything measures which are concluded only. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (Our collection includes 3 statements about the Russian language from Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin)
• That the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world, there is no doubt about it. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
• You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and, truly, another name is even more precious than the thing itself. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
• To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
• Knowledge of the Russian language, a language that deserves to be studied in every possible way, both in itself, because it is one of the strongest and richest living languages, and for the sake of the literature it reveals, is no longer such a rarity... Friedrich Engels.
• There is one significant fact: in our still unsettled and young language we can convey the deepest forms of the spirit and thoughts of European languages. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
• True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
• Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I don’t like words with a lot of hissing and whistling sounds, so I avoid them. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
• No matter what you say, your native language will always remain native. When you want to speak to your heart’s content, not a single French word comes to mind, but if you want to shine, then it’s a different matter. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
• The word of a Briton will echo with heartfelt knowledge and wise knowledge of life; The short-lived word of the Frenchman will flash and scatter like a light dandy; the German will intricately come up with his own clever and thin word, which is not accessible to everyone; but there is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and vibrantly trembling, like a well-spoken Russian word. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol.
• The beauty, greatness, strength and richness of the Russian language is abundantly clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors not only did not know any rules for writing, but they hardly even thought that they existed or could exist. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
• You can do wonders with the Russian language! Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
• We must love and preserve those examples of the Russian language that we inherited from first-class masters. Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov
• The Russian language, as far as I can judge of it, is the richest of all European dialects and seems deliberately created to express the subtlest shades. Gifted with wonderful conciseness, combined with clarity, he is content with one word to convey thoughts when another language would require whole phrases for this. (In our article there are 2 statements about the Russian language from Prosper Merimee - a French writer and translator, one of the first masters of the short story in France)
• Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages ​​in its richness, strength, freedom of arrangement, and abundance of forms. Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov
• The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed. Maksim Gorky
• There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language; everything excites, breathes, lives. Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov
• 
  The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin (Wise sayings about Russian)
• There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky.
• Our native language should be the main basis of our general education and the education of each of us. Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky
• But what disgusting bureaucratic language! Based on that situation... on the one hand... on the other hand - and all this without any need. “Nevertheless” and “to the extent that” the officials composed. I read and spit. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
• Our beautiful language, under the pen of uneducated and inexperienced writers, is quickly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
• By the attitude of each person to his language, one can accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
• Follow the rule persistently: so that words are cramped and thoughts are spacious. Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov
• To handle the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly. Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy

• Strive to enrich the mind and beautify the Russian word. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
• Nothing is so ordinary for us, nothing seems so simple as our speech, but in our very being there is nothing as surprising, as wonderful as our speech. Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev
• Russian language is the language of poetry. The Russian language is unusually rich in versatility and subtlety of shades. Prosper Merimee
• There is no doubt that the desire to replete Russian speech with foreign words unnecessarily, without sufficient reason, is contrary to common sense and common taste; but it does not harm the Russian language or Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
• The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its drawbacks, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vsha, -vshi, -vshu, -shcha, -shchi. On the first page of your story, “lice” crawls in large numbers: those who worked, those who spoke, those who arrived. It is quite possible to do without insects. Maksim Gorky
• Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness and strength. Maksim Gorky
• The Russian language is revealed to the end in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone.”

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language - this is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect.

"AND. Turgenev"

We must love and preserve those examples of the Russian language that we inherited from first-class masters.

"Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov"

Among the magnificent qualities of the Russian language, there is one absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable one. It lies in the fact that its sound is so diverse that it contains the sound of almost all the languages ​​of the world.

He left a long time ago, leaving her only a Russian language textbook as a keepsake, and she still missed their walks and his smile.

Depending on the intonation, one swear word from car mechanic Ivanov can mean up to 70 different parts and devices.

There is a wonderful 3-letter word in the Russian language. And it means “no,” but it is written and pronounced completely differently.

Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages ​​in its richness, strength, freedom of arrangement, and abundance of forms.

"Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov"

Language is important for a patriot.

"Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin"

Foreigners will never understand how it is possible for two horseradishes to peel a turnip, or to knock one pepper on a pumpkin.

In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how can one not fall into despair at the sight of everything that is happening at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!

To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste.

"Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky"

True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language.

"TO. Paustovsky"

Follow the rule persistently: so that words are cramped and thoughts are spacious.

"Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov"

When words are rearranged in Russian, their overall meaning changes noticeably. For example, “well, yes” means “no brainer,” and “oh, well,” depending on the intonation, it means from “cool” to “don’t give a fuck.”

It is difficult to explain to a foreigner that a good thermos is one in which “the tea takes a long time to cool down” or in which “the tea does NOT cool down for a long time.”

I do not consider foreign words good and suitable unless they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russified ones. We must protect our rich and beautiful language from damage.

"Nikolai Semenovich Leskov"

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word.

"M. A. Sholokhov"

Subtlety of the Russian language: I oversalted the borscht, I overdid it with salt.

The heavenly beauty of our language will never be trampled upon by cattle.

Language is the confession of the people, their soul and way of life is native.

"Peter Andreevich Vyazemsky"

When answering a business call, saying “what,” “yes,” and “what the fuck” has become old-fashioned. In the dictionary of an intelligent person there is the right word: “I will listen.”

A whole series of idiomatic expressions, such as: “fuck you” or “wow” are replaced by the phrase: “It hurts to hear,” which is pronounced with Shakespearean tragedy.

The perception of other people's words, especially without necessity, is not enrichment, but damage to the language.

"A. Sumarokov"

As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones.

"A. S. Pushkin"

Remember a simple rule of the Russian language: The word “sorry” is said when they want to do something nasty. And the word “sorry” when this nasty thing has already been done.

Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed; but no one who is afraid of deep water will be able to come there.

"IN. M. Illich-Svitych"

You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and, truly, another name is even more precious than the thing itself.

"Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol"

A task of increased difficulty for foreigners in the Russian exam: decipher “Barely, barely ate, ate, ate.” Answer: “Some trees very slowly ate other trees.”

"F. Dostoevsky"

Knowledge of the Russian language, a language that deserves to be studied in every possible way, both in itself, because it is one of the strongest and richest living languages, and for the sake of the literature it reveals, is no longer such a rarity.

"Friedrich Engels"

The Russian language is great and powerful, and the rhyme for the word star is always the same.

Oddities of the Russian language: a bachelorette party is a women's party, and a womanizer is a loving man.

Quotes about the Russian language

That the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world, there is no doubt about it.

"IN. Belinsky"

I fight for the purity of the Russian language. I don’t take selfies, but take selfies.

Strive to enrich the mind and beautify the Russian word.

"Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov"

The heavenly beauty of our language will never be trampled upon by cattle.

"Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov"

Even if you know 15 foreign languages, you still need Russian. You never know, you might fall or drop something heavy on your leg.

By the attitude of each person to his language, one can accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value.

"Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky"

Not a single spoken word has brought as much benefit as many unspoken ones.

"A. Herzen"

Well, tell me: what is the difference in the words “always” and “never”? One of my girlfriends is offended that I “always” don’t understand her, the other is offended that I “never” understand her. Damn, just understand these women!

There is such an expression - “the soul has beautiful impulses.” So, “souls” is a verb.

Only having mastered the initial material, that is, our native language, to the possible perfection, will we be able to master a foreign language to the possible perfection, but not before.

"F. Dostoevsky"

It is difficult to explain to a foreigner the phrase “You can’t get around to looking.”

No one will explain to foreigners why: “the sea is knee-deep for a drunk, but the fish are like shit,” or “put on a fucking hat, otherwise your ears will freeze.”

Strange Russian language: inhumane and deserted are not synonymous.

Language is an image of everything that existed, exists and will exist - everything that the human mental eye can embrace and comprehend.

"A. F. Merzlyakov"

Putting ellipses in obscene words was invented by people who were not sure how to spell the word “g...but” correctly.

The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.

"Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin"

The phrase “I will never forget you” sounds tender and affectionate. But “I remember you” is already somehow threatening.

Best quotes about the Russian language:

Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing to do, but an urgent necessity.

"Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin"

By necessity, many foreign words entered the Russian language, because many foreign concepts and ideas entered Russian life. This phenomenon is not new. It is very difficult to invent your own terms to express other people's concepts, and in general this work is rarely successful. Therefore, with a new concept that one takes from another, he takes the very word that expresses this concept.

Take care of the purity of your language as a sacred thing! Never use foreign words. The Russian language is so rich and flexible that we have nothing to take from those who are poorer than us.

I.S. Turgenev

In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how can one not fall into despair at the sight of everything that is happening at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!

I.S. Turgenev

Strive to enrich the mind and beautify the Russian word.

M. V. Lomonosov

Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison.

M.Yu.Lermontov

As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones.

A. S. Pushkin

Our beautiful language, under the pen of uneducated and inexperienced writers, is quickly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all.

A. S. Pushkin

The Russian people created the Russian language, bright as a rainbow after a spring shower, accurate as arrows, melodious and rich, sincere, like a song over a cradle.

A.N. Tolstoy

The Russian language, more than any new language, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages ​​in its richness, strength, freedom of arrangement, and abundance of forms. But in order to take advantage of all the treasures, you need to know it well, you need to be able to wield it. N.A.Dobrolyubov

In fact, for an intelligent person, speaking poorly should be considered as indecent as not being able to read and write.

A.P. Chekhov

There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.

K. Paustovsky

To handle language in a haphazard manner means to think haphazardly: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly.

A.N. Tolstoy

...Real, strong, where necessary - gentle, touching, where necessary - strict, where necessary - passionate, where necessary - lively and living language of the people.

L.N. Tolstoy

A dictionary is the entire internal history of a people.

N. A. Kotlyarovsky

Not a single spoken word has brought as much benefit as many unspoken ones.

The main character of our language lies in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, internal, lyrical feelings... a cry of indignation, sparkling prank and amazing passion.

A.I. Herzen

Language is an image of everything that existed, exists and will exist - everything that the human mental eye can embrace and comprehend. A. F. Merzlyakov

Language is the confession of the people,

His soul and life are dear.

P. A. Vyazemsky

There are books on my table,

Lots of happy books!

The teacher revealed them to me -

Wise Russian language!

Etibor Akhunov

The Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of foreign aesthetes themselves, is not inferior to Latin either in courage, Greek or fluency, and surpasses all European languages: Italian, Spanish and French, not to mention German.

G. Derzhavin

We are spoiling the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. And we use them incorrectly. Why say “defects” when you can say gaps, shortcomings, shortcomings? Isn't it time to declare war on the unnecessary use of foreign words?

IN AND. Lenin

What is language? First of all, it is not only a way to express your thoughts, but also to create your thoughts. Language has the opposite effect. A person who turns his thoughts, his ideas, his feelings into language... he is also, as it were, permeated by this way of expression.

A. N. Tolstoy

The immortality of a people is in its language.

Ch. Aitmatov

Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, bring words into the correct relationship, and give a phrase ease and proper sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notations. They hold the text firmly and do not allow it to crumble.

K. G. Paustovsky

It's not scary to lie dead under bullets,

It's not bitter to be homeless,

And we will save you, Russian speech,

The Great Russian Word.

We will carry you free and clean,

We will give it to our grandchildren and save us from captivity

Anna Akhmatova

There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language; everything excites, breathes, lives.

A. S. Khomyakov

Before you is a community - the Russian language!

N.V.Gogol

The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.

A. I. Kuprin

Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed; but no one who is afraid of deep water will be able to come there.

V. M. Illich-Svitych

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word.

M. A. Sholokhov

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.

M. Gorky

The richer the language is in expressions and turns of phrase, the better for a skilled writer. A.S. Pushkin

Beware of refined language. The language should be simple and elegant.

A.P.Chekhov

Language, our magnificent language.

River and steppe expanse in it,

It contains the screams of an eagle and the roar of a wolf,

The chanting, and the ringing, and the incense of pilgrimage.

K.D.Balmont

Language is the history of the people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why learning and preserving the Russian language is not an idle hobby with nothing to do, but an urgent necessity.

A.I. Kuprin

The language of a people is the best, never fading and ever-blooming flower of their entire spiritual life.

K.D. Ushinsky

Charles V, the Roman Emperor, used to say that it is proper to speak in Spanish with God, in French with friends, in German with the enemy, and in Italian with the female sex. But if he knew Russian, then of course he would have added that it is decent for them to speak to everyone, because... I would find in it the splendor of Spanish, and the liveliness of French, and the strength of German, and the tenderness of Italian, and the richness and strong figurativeness of Latin and Greek.

M.V. Lomonosov We must protect the language from clogging, remembering that the words we use now - with the transfer of a certain number of new ones - will serve for many centuries after you to express ideas and thoughts still unknown to us, to create new ones that cannot be our anticipation of poetic creations. And we should be deeply grateful to previous generations who brought this heritage to us - figurative, capacious, intelligent language. It itself already contains all the elements of art: harmonious syntactic architecture, music of words, verbal painting.

S.Ya.Marshak

He who does not know foreign languages ​​has no idea about his own.

The language is free, wise and simple

Generations have given us an inheritance.

Krylov and Pushkin, Chekhov and Tolstoy

They preserved it in their creations.

I.S. Turgenev

No matter what you say, your native language will always remain native. When you want to speak to your heart’s content, not a single French word comes to mind, but if you want to shine, then it’s a different matter.

L.N. Tolstoy

Just as a person can be identified by his society, so he can be judged by his language.

The Russian language is the language of poetry. The Russian language is unusually rich in versatility and subtlety of shades.

Prosper Merimee

The Russian language is fully revealed in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone” and feel the hidden charm of our land.

K.G.Paustovsky

Our language is sweet, pure, and lush, and rich.

A.P. Sumarokov

The Russian language is extremely rich, flexible and picturesque in expressing simple, natural concepts.

V.G. Belinsky

Language is a heritage received from ancestors and left to descendants, a heritage that must be treated with fear and respect, as something sacred, invaluable and inaccessible to insult.”

You can do wonders with the Russian language!

K.G. Paustovsky

Russian language! For millennia, the people created this flexible, lush, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent poetic... instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future... With a wondrous ligature the people wove the invisible network of the Russian language: bright as a rainbow after the spring rain , sharp as arrows, sincere as a song over a cradle, melodious... The dense world, over which he threw the magic net of words, submitted to him like a bridled horse.

A.N. Tolstoy

Language is a tool, you need to know it well and master it well.

M. Gorky

The old syllable attracts me. There is charm in ancient speech. It can be more modern and sharper than our words.

Bella Akhmadulina

Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing to do, but an urgent necessity.

A. Kuprin

How beautiful the Russian language is! All the advantages of German without its terrible rudeness.

F. Engels

The word of a Briton will echo with heartfelt knowledge and wise knowledge of life; The short-lived word of the Frenchman will flash and scatter like a light dandy; the German will intricately come up with his own clever and thin word, which is not accessible to everyone; but there is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and vibrantly trembling, like a well-spoken Russian word.

N.V.Gogol

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect; in the hands of skilled people, it is able to perform miracles... Take care of the purity of the language as if it were a shrine!

I.S. Turgenev

Language is the centuries-old work of an entire generation.

V. I. Dal

Only having mastered the initial material, that is, our native language, to the possible perfection, will we be able to master a foreign language to the possible perfection, but not before.

F.M.Dostoevsky

If you want to beat fate,

If you are looking for joy in a flower garden,

If you need solid support, -

Learn Russian language!

He is your great, mighty mentor,

He is a translator, he is a guide.

If you storm knowledge steeply -

Learn Russian language!

Gorky's vigilance, Tolstoy's vastness,

Pushkin's lyrics are a pure spring

They shine with the mirror image of the Russian word.

Learn Russian language"