Literature 5 - 11 grade
School essays
Russian language
To handle language in a haphazard manner means to think haphazardly: imprecisely, approximately, incorrectly.
(A.N. Tolstoy).
There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language. You can do wonders with the Russian language!
(K. G. Paustovsky).
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is enriched with amazing speed.
(Maksim Gorky).
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 more precious than the thing itself.
(N.V. Gogol).
(I.S. Turgenev).
(K. G. Paustovsky).
Language, our magnificent language. There is expanse of river and steppe in it, In it are the screams of an eagle and the roar of a wolf, The chanting, and the ringing, and the incense of pilgrimage.
(K.D. Balmont).
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).
(M.V. Lomonosov).
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
(A.I. Kuprin).
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!
(I.S. Turgenev).
(M. Gorky).
(N.V. Gogol).
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).
Statements of great people about the Russian language.
Russian language!
For millennia, this flexible, lush, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent,
poetic and labor instrument of one’s social life, one’s thoughts, one’s feelings,
your hopes, your anger, your great future.
A. V. Tolstoy
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 - rustles and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles like a gentle brook and sweetly flows into the soul, forming everything measures that consist only
in the fall and rise of the human voice!
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language.
Our beautiful language, from the pen of unlearned and unskilled writers,
is rapidly heading towards a fall. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates.
Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
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
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
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.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
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
out of nothing to do, but an urgent need.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
Use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word,
- means to insult both common sense and common taste.
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
Alexander Ivanovich 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.
Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych
Strive to enrich the mind and beautify the Russian word.
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
Only having mastered the original material, that is, our native language, to the possible perfection, will we be able to
learn a foreign language, but not before.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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
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 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. And there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection as we are surprised at in others.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
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
That the Russian language is one of the richest languages in the world,
there is no doubt about it.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
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
The main character of our language lies in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, internal lyrical feelings, “the scurrying of life,” a cry of indignation, sparkling prank and amazing passion.
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
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
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.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
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.”
and feels the hidden beauty of our land.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
There is one significant fact: we are still on our
in an unsettled and young language we can convey
the deepest forms of spirit and thought of European languages.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The natural richness of the Russian language and speech is so great that without further ado, listening to the times with your heart, in close communication with the common man and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket, you can become an excellent writer.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin
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.
Prosper Merimee
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
Our speech is predominantly aphoristic,
It is distinguished by its compactness and strength.
Maksim Gorky
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.
Maksim Gorky
Perception of other people's words, and especially without necessity,
there is not enrichment, but corruption of the language.
Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov
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
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
Our native language should be the main basis of our general education
and education of each of us.
Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky
We must love and preserve those examples of the Russian language,
which we inherited from first-class masters.
Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov
Language is important for a patriot.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
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
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
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 heavenly beauty of our language will never be trampled upon by cattle.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple -
for which there would be no exact expression in our language.
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
To handle the language somehow means to think somehow:
approximately, inaccurately, incorrectly.
Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Language is an image of everything that existed, exists and will exist - everything that the human mental eye can embrace and comprehend.
Alexey Fedorovich Merzlyakov
Language is the confession of the people, His soul and way of life are native.
Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky
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.
Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin
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...
it also seems to be permeated by this way of expression.
Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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
Forever.
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
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
Follow the rule persistently: so that words are cramped and thoughts are spacious.
Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language;
everything excites, breathes, lives.
Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov
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
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.
Maksim Gorky
The richer the language is in expressions and turns of phrase, the better for a skilled writer.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
Beware of refined language. The language should be simple and elegant.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison.
Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov
The language of the people is the best, never fading and forever
the newly blossoming flower of his entire spiritual life.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky
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
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.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
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
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Sayings about literature
Poets do not come from somewhere overseas, but come from their own people. These are the lights that flew out of him, the advanced messengers of his powers.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
There is hardly a higher pleasure than the pleasure of creating.
Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent poet.
Thomas Alva Edison
The great poetry of our century is a science with the amazing flowering of its discoveries, its conquest of matter, inspiring man to increase his activity tenfold.
Emile Zola
Books are a mirror: although they do not speak, they declare every guilt and vice.
Second Catherine the Great
The beauty, greatness, strength and richness of the Russian language are 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
If we present the history of literature of a particular era without knowing the economic and political history of this era, then our presentation will, at best, be reduced to watery aesthetic and philological reasoning.
Franz Mehring
Books have a special charm; books give us pleasure: they talk to us, give us good advice, they become living friends for us.
Francesco Petrarca
No reading requires such a strict standard as reading fragmentary, scattered thoughts.
Johann Gottfried Herder
Reading good books is a conversation with the best people of past times, and, moreover, such a conversation when they tell us only their best thoughts.
Rene Descartes
Conversing with writers from other centuries is almost like traveling.
Rene Descartes
Among books, as among people, one can fall into good and bad society.
Claude Adrian Helvetius
The struggle for purity, for semantic precision, for the sharpness of language is a struggle for an instrument of culture. The sharper this weapon is, the more accurately it is aimed, the more victorious it is.
Maksim Gorky
Literature is news that never becomes obsolete.
Ezra Pound.
Writing simply and clearly is as difficult as being sincere and kind.
Dmitry Ivanovich Pisarev
Joseph Addison
Literature gives shape to life.
A book is a great thing as long as a person knows how to use it.
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok
A good book is just a holiday
Maxim (Alexey Maksimovich Peshkov) Gorky
Study and read. Read serious books. Life will do the rest.
Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The work that is being read has a present; a work that is reread has a future.
Alexander (son) Dumas
Good style should show no trace of effort. What is written should seem like a happy accident.
Somerset Maugham
Most writers consider the truth to be their most valuable asset - which is why they use it so sparingly.
Mark Twain
The newest and most original book is the one that makes you love old truths.
Luc de Clapier Vauvenargues
They (the poets) are not clean enough: they muddy the water to make it seem deeper.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Literature is a deeply responsible matter and does not require coquetry with talents.
Maksim Gorky
Time passes, but the spoken word remains.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Thomas Jefferson
My best friend is the one who gave me a book that I haven't read yet.
Abraham Lincoln
An artist, painter, poet or musician satisfies the aesthetic sense with his sublime or beautiful; but this is a barbaric satisfaction, it is akin to the sexual instinct, for it also gives itself to you.
Somerset Maugham
When a writer deeply feels his blood connection with the people, it gives him beauty and strength.
Maksim Gorky
Read books, but remember - a book is a book, and use your brain!
Maksim Gorky
A book is the same phenomenon of life as a person, it is also a living, speaking fact, and it is less of a “thing” than all other things created and being created by man.
Maksim Gorky
Every writer to a certain extent portrays himself in his writings, often even against his will.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
True morality is directly poetic, and poetry, in turn, is indirectly moral.
In any case, a little, but good, is better than a lot, but bad. It's the same in books.
Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
A book where all words are capitalized is difficult to read; So it is with life, in which all days are Sundays.
I was raised on laws and it gave me insight into the dark side of humanity. Then I began to read poetry to smooth out this impression and get acquainted with its bright side.
Thomas Jefferson
Books on the topic of the day die along with the topicality.
Words sometimes need music, but music needs nothing.
Edvard Grieg
Every day you should listen to at least one song, look at a good picture and, if possible, read at least some wise saying.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Only those who are concerned about big, universal and social problems should write.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
Poetry is the same as radium mining.
Production per gram, labor per year.
You exhaust one word for the sake of
Thousands of tons of verbal ore.
For a people deprived of public freedom, literature is the only platform from the height of which they make the cry of their indignation and their conscience heard.
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
One piece of nonsense printed creates in two more people the belief that they too can write just as well. These two, having written and been published, already arouse the envy of four.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky
The living and lasting meaning of filial duty is comprehended in the mind of a son or daughter more quickly by reading King Lear than by studying hundreds of boring volumes on ethics and divine commandments.
Thomas Jefferson
Painting is poetry that is seen, and poetry is painting that is heard.
Leonardo da Vinci
But even then
When in the whole planet
The tribal feud will pass,
Lies and sadness will disappear, -
I will chant
With the whole being in the poet
Sixth of the land
With a short name: Rus'.
Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin
Language is a pre-prepared path or pattern of thought.
Edward Sapir
Human language is flexible; There is no end to his speeches.
Homer
Don't let your tongue get ahead of your thoughts.
Chilon
To learn the customs of any people, try to first learn their language.
Pythagoras of Samos
Language is the weapon of a writer, like a gun is a soldier. The better the weapon, the stronger the warrior...
Maksim Gorky
It is wise to write only about what they do not understand.
Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
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
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
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
Beware of refined language. The language should be simple and elegant.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
At all times, the richness of language and oratory went hand in hand.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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
The greatest wealth of a people is its language.
Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov
We speak the great language of consciousness and reason, before which the language of religion is powerless.
Henri Barbusse
The boundaries of my language mean the boundaries of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
We are fighting with the tongue.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Distrust of grammar is the first requirement for philosophizing.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Our language can be considered like an ancient city: a labyrinth of small streets and squares, old and new houses, houses with extensions from different eras; and all this is surrounded by many new districts with straight, regularly laid out streets and standard houses.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
No sentence can say anything about itself. Man has the ability to construct languages that allow him to express any meaning, without having any idea of how or what each word means.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Grammar tells you what kind of object something is.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A printed line looks and runs differently than a series of arbitrary hooks and curls.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Everyday language is part of the human structure, and it is no less complex than this structure.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
To understand a sentence is to understand the language. Understanding a language means mastering a certain technique.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
You learned the concept of “pain” along with the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A sentence is a model of reality as we imagine it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A sentence can convey new meaning with old expressions.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A sentence shows what it says; tautology and contradiction show that they say nothing.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The proposition itself is neither probable nor improbable.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
A sentence is true when what it represents exists.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The confusions that occupy us arise when language is idling, not when it is working.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
He who has a tongue “has” the world.
Hans Georg Gadamer
Writing is the abstract ideality of language.
Hans Georg Gadamer
Where translation is required, one has to come to terms with the discrepancy between the exact meaning of what is said in one language and what is reproduced in another.
Hans Georg Gadamer
There is nothing that cannot be heard through language.
Hans Georg Gadamer
That which can be understood is language.
Hans Georg Gadamer
The requirement of fidelity to the original that we impose on translation does not remove the fundamental difference between languages. Any translation that takes its task seriously is clearer and more primitive than the original.
Hans Georg Gadamer
Language is the medium in which the “I” and the world are united.
Hans Georg Gadamer
It was not research science, but creative language that gave birth to both word and concept.
Johan Huizinga
We separate intellectuality and language, but in reality there is no such separation.
Gustav Gustavovich Shpet
The people use language without knowing how it was formed, so it seems that language is not so much a manifestation of conscious creativity as an involuntary outflow of the spirit itself.
Gustav Gustavovich Shpet
Language is, as it were, an external manifestation of the spirit of peoples - their language is their spirit, and their spirit is their language.
Gustav Gustavovich Shpet
The existence of people is tightly bound by language.
Georges Bataille
The function of language is not to inform, but to evoke ideas.
Jacques Lacan
An analogy is not a metaphor.
Jacques Lacan
I always took up a new language in order to master a new working tool.
Mircea Eliade
The emergence of speaking is the mystery of language.
Paul Ricoeur
For us speakers, language is not an object, but a mediator; language is what, through which we express ourselves and things.
Paul Ricoeur
The utmost openness of the language is its victory.
Paul Ricoeur
Only at the level of the phrase does language say something; outside of the sentence he doesn't talk about anything.
Paul Ricoeur
Everything that language touches—philosophy, the humanities, literature—is, in a certain sense, called into question anew.
Roland Barthes
"Jargon" is the imagination embodied.
Roland Barthes
We choose a language not because it seems necessary to us - we choose a language for ourselves and thereby make it necessary.
Roland Barthes
Language has become both a problem and a model for us, and perhaps the hour is approaching when these two “roles” will begin to communicate with each other.
Roland Barthes
Language is the very essence of literature, the world where it lives.
Roland Barthes
The omnipotence of language is to talk about words.
Gilles Deleuze
The language is either given in its entirety, or it is not there at all.
Gilles Deleuze
It is language that must both set limits and transgress them.
Gilles Deleuze
To observe means to be content with seeing. Natural history is a contemporary of language.
Paul Michel Foucault
Sciences are well-organized languages as much as languages are undeveloped sciences.
Paul Michel Foucault
Language is not the external manifestation of thought, but thought itself.
Paul Michel Foucault
There is something, something really there, beyond language, and it all depends on interpretation.
Jacques Derrida
An idiom is not a stone. The idiom is not the border with the policeman at the gate.
Jacques Derrida
To speak your own language means to demand translation, to cry out for translation.
Jacques Derrida
This is the fate of the tongue - to move away from the body.
Jacques Derrida
Language cannot do without spatial metaphors.
Jacques Derrida
A decomposed sentence says more than an undecomposed one. When a sentence is as complex as its meaning, it is completely decomposed.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language is a part of our organism, and no less complex than this organism itself.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language disguises thoughts.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language is a labyrinth of paths.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Every language has its own silence.
Elias Canetti
Language, taken as a system, becomes numb.
Elias Canetti
Language itself is symbolism.
Alfred North Whitehead
All paths of thought lead mysteriously in a more or less tangible way through language.
Martin Heidegger
For East Asian and European peoples, the essence of language remains completely different.
Martin Heidegger
Learning a foreign language is an expansion of the scope of everything that we can learn.
Hans Georg Gadamer
Understanding someone else's language means not needing translation into your own.
Hans Georg Gadamer
Since ancient times, people have had wise and beautiful sayings; We should learn from them.
Herodotus
An intemperate tongue is the worst of evils.
Euripides
From a small spark to a fire
Language brings people...
Euripides
A short mind has a long tongue.
Aristophanes
The multiplication of tongues is the cause of trouble.
Menander
Most of all, learn to hold your tongue.
Menander
A language that is wise with knowledge will not falter.
Menander
There should be no errors in the nannies' language.
Quintilian
Knowledge of laws does not consist in remembering their words, but in comprehending their meaning.
Cicero Marcus Tullius
If you want the truth, don’t hold back your tongue.
Publilius Syrus
An evil tongue is a sign of an evil heart.
Publilius Syrus
A person always has one thing on his tongue and another on his mind.
Publilius Syrus
Be silent, my tongue, there is nothing more to talk about.
Ovid
A slanderous tongue betrays a foolish person.
Plutarch
Whose country is, whose language is.
Unknown author
The tongue is the enemy of people and the friend of the devil and women.
Unknown author
A meek tongue is a tree of life, but an unbridled tongue is a crushing spirit.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
Old Testament. Proverbs of Solomon
Be firm in your conviction, and let your word be one. Be quick to listen and give your answer thoughtfully. If you have knowledge, then answer your neighbor, and if not, then let your hand be on your mouth. In speech there is glory and dishonor, and a man's tongue is his downfall. Do not be known as an earphone, and do not be deceitful with your tongue: for on a thief there is shame, and on a double-tongued person there is evil reproach. Don't be foolish in anything big or small.
Old Testament. Sirach
He who bridles the tongue will live peacefully, and he who hates talkativeness will reduce evil.
Old Testament. Sirach
For language learning, free curiosity is much more important than formidable necessity.
Aurelius Augustine
Language is the best mediator for establishing friendship and harmony.
Erasmus of Rotterdam
The tongue is the most dangerous weapon: a wound from a sword is easier to heal than from a word.
Pedro Carderon de la Barca
Experienced people recognize the pulse of the spirit by language, it was not without reason that the sage said: “Speak, if you want me to recognize you...”
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
Protect your tongue.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
Experience too often teaches us that people have less control over anything than over their tongue.
Benedict Spinoza
Just as a person can be recognized by the society in which he moves, so he can be judged by the language in which he expresses himself.
Jonathan Swift
Sword and fire are less destructive than a loose tongue.
Richard Steele
Knowing many languages means having many keys to one lock.
Voltaire
Language is also of great importance because with its help we can hide our thoughts.
Voltaire
Language is the clothing of thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
Accent is the soul of a language, giving it not only feeling but also authenticity.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
When the language is not constrained by anything, everyone is constrained.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The beauty, greatness, strength and richness of the Russian language are 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
Charles the Fifth, the Roman Emperor, used to say that it is decent to speak Spanish with God, French with friends, German with the enemy, and Italian with the female sex. But if he were skilled in the Russian language, then, of course, he would have added that it is decent for them to speak with all of them, for he would have found in him the splendor of Spanish, the liveliness of French, the strength of German, the tenderness of Italian, in addition to the richness and strength in the images brevity of Greek and Latin.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
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. And there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection as we are surprised at in others.
Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
The perception of other people's words, especially without necessity, is not enrichment, but damage to the language.
Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov
If a person’s language is sluggish, heavy, confused, powerless, vague, uneducated, then this is probably the mind of this person, for he thinks only through the medium of language.
Johann Gottfried Herder
In the midst of the worst of all, the tongue is prickly.
Johann Friedrich Schiller
How beautiful the Russian language is! All the advantages of German without its terrible rudeness.
Friedrich Engels
It is impossible to create a language, because it is created by the people; philologists only discover its laws and bring them into a system, and writers only create on it in accordance with these laws.
To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste.
Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
Language is a tool; it is almost more difficult than the violin itself. One might also note that mediocrity on one or another instrument is intolerable.
Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky
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
Language is the centuries-old work of an entire generation.
Vladimir Ivanovich Dal
Language will not keep pace with education, will not respond
modern needs, if they do not allow it to develop from its sap and root,
ferment with your own yeast.
Vladimir Ivanovich Dal
The Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of foreign aestheticians themselves, is not inferior either to Latin or to Greek in fluency, surpassing all European languages: Italian, French and Spanish, and even more so German.
Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin
Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison.
Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov
New words of foreign origin are introduced into the Russian press incessantly and often completely unnecessarily, and - what is most offensive of all - these harmful exercises are practiced in the very organs where Russian nationality and its characteristics are most passionately advocated.
Nikolai Semenovich Leskov
As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
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!
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
Language is not always able to express what the eye sees.
James Fenimore Cooper
The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades.
Prosper Merimee
The main advantage of language is clarity.
Stendhal
Language is given to man in order to hide his thoughts.
Charles Maurice Talleyrand (Talleyrand-Périgord)
It’s good, and you even need to know your neighbor’s speech, but first of all you need to know your own.
Francisk Kazimirovich Bogushevich
The language dearest to my heart is the one in which, my dear, you once said to me, offering me a flower: “I love you!”
George Meredith
We only feel the charm of our native speech when we hear it under foreign skies!
George Bernard Shaw
There is no truth in a person who cannot control his tongue.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The struggle for purity, for semantic precision, for the sharpness of language is a struggle for an instrument of culture. The sharper this weapon is, the more accurately it is aimed, the more victorious it is.
Maksim Gorky
If you don’t know how to hold an ax in your hand, you won’t be able to cut wood, and if you don’t know the language well, you won’t be able to write it beautifully and understandably to everyone.
Maksim Gorky
The collection includes quotes from great writers:
- The era of the great offensive of the burghers. And in the forefront of this terrible army are women. It's sad, but true. V. Shukshin
- Learn to live even when life becomes unbearable. Make it useful. Nikolai Alexandrovich Ostrovsky
- What makes a man rich is his heart. Wealth is determined not by what a person has, but by what he is. Henry Ward Beecher
- Only unloved women are never late. Alexandre Dumas the father
- Being interesting is the first responsibility of an obscure author. The right to be boring belongs only to those writers who have already become famous. Edmund Burke
- The most virtuous woman is the one whom nature created the most passionate, and reason made the coldest. Emile Zola
- Jealousy is one part of love and ninety-nine parts of self-love. F. La Rochefoucauld
- Russia is a game of nature, not of the mind. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- The greatest skill of a writer is the ability to cross out. He who knows how and who has the strength to cross out his own will go far. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- Nature... awakens in us the need for love... Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
- Time never stands still, life is constantly evolving, human relationships change every fifty years. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- The beautiful is life. Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
- The first and most important quality of a woman is meekness. Jean Jacques Rousseau
- Even cruel hearts are overcome by a kind request. Albius Tibullus
- Describing a flower with love for nature contains much more civic feelings than denouncing bribe-takers... Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- A friendship that ended never really began. Publilius Syrus
- I hate all kinds of dead things! I love all kinds of life! Vladimir Mayakovsky
- If you were guaranteed absolute success at one thing, what goal would you set for yourself? Brian Tracy
- Our civilization is just beginning, and we cannot imagine, even with the most ardent imagination, to what power over nature it will bring us. Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
- Life is a big surprise. Perhaps death will be an even bigger surprise. Vladimir Nabokov
- We are rarely tied to a woman by what attracted us to her. John Collins
- Life is not a property to be protected, but a gift to be shared with others. William Faulkner
- Love is what happens to men and women who do not know each other. Somerset Maugham
- Remember my testament: never invent any plot or intrigue. Take what life itself gives. Life is much richer than all our imaginations! No imagination can come up with what the most ordinary, ordinary life sometimes gives you, respect life! Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- He who does not love nature does not love man, is not a citizen. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- The idea and its embodiment must arise simultaneously and inseparably from each other. Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Like the fruit of a tree, life is sweetest just before it begins to fade. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
- Each person is the artist of his own life, drawing strength and inspiration from himself. Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov
- Life is nothing more than a constantly conquered contradiction. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
- Shout - anyone will hear, whisper - the closest one will hear, and only the lover will hear what you are silent about.
- Life is eternity, death is just a moment. M.Yu. Lermontov
- It is better to write for yourself without having readers than to write for readers without yourself. Cyril Connolly
- Women only love those they don't know. Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov
- Women without male society fade, and men without female society become stupid. Anton Chekhov
- You have to be a complete idiot to write not for money. Samuel Johnson
- A woman is a failed man. Jack London
- There is no point where you can say, “Well, now I’m successful. You can take a nap.” Carrie Fisher
- Writers are people who demand to pay for vocabulary in cash. Michael Augustin
- If life does not seem to you to be a great joy, it is only because your mind is misdirected. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
- A writer is someone you can silence by closing his book. Max Grelnik
- A day is a small life, and you have to live it as if you were supposed to die now, and you were unexpectedly given another day. Maksim Gorky
- A writer should write a lot, but should not rush. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- Any weakening of mental life in society inevitably entails an increase in material inclinations and vile egoistic instincts. Fedor Tyutchev
- In addition to the producing person, there are also higher species. Friedrich Nietzsche
- Outside the people there is no art, no truth, no life, nothing. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
- Drunkenness does not give birth to vices: it reveals them. Happiness does not change morals: it emphasizes them. Socrates
- In art, always and at all times, there are two motivating principles - knowledge and affirmation: knowledge of the mental nature of man and the affirmation of this nature in reality. A. N. Tolstoy
- Becoming a writer is very easy. There is no freak who has not found a mate, and no nonsense that has not found a suitable reader. Therefore, don’t be shy... Write about whatever you want... It’s very difficult to become a writer who is published and read. To do this: be absolutely literate and have a talent the size of at least a lentil grain. Chekhov, “Rules for beginning authors”
- To be honest, inaccessible to the world and a courtesan for her husband means to be a woman of genius. Honore de Balzac
- What is easy to read was written with great difficulty. Enrique Hardiel Poncela
- A person who sees life in its true light and interprets it romantically is doomed to despair. George Bernard Shaw
- Anyone who does not expect to have a million readers should not write a single line. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- The artist always writes about the main things in a person’s life. When a writer says: I am writing about the construction of a water pumping station, I feel sorry for both him and the reader. Yuri Kazakov
- Killing time is suicide. D. Pekk
- Although human life has no price, we always act as if there is something even more valuable. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- Study and read. Read serious books. Life will do the rest. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
- If you want to write, sit and write. If you want to get published, go ahead and get published. But if someone wants to be a writer - that is, to speak in front of readers, not go to work, live on fees, stop by the editorial office for tea and cognac, travel around the world, hold conversations in creative houses, discuss smoky nights with colleagues about the problems of literature , casually taking a writer's card out of his pocket - he was lost with his injured pride and the sign of involvement in the literary process. Mikhail Weller, “The Knife of Seryozha Dovlatov”
- I've had ideals all my life. And so, realizing that they were no longer within my reach, I began to complain. It's very nice to complain... John Galsworthy
- A person cannot begin to write without accumulating a certain reserve of bitterness. Ginzburg, Lidia Yakovlevna
- Only that humor will live that arose on the basis of life's truth. Mark Twain
- I was amazed at how helpless our mind, our reason, our heart turn out to be when we need to make the slightest change, untie one knot, which life itself then unravels with incomprehensible ease. Marcel Proust
- Tact is good taste in behavior and demeanor, and good manners is good taste in conversation and speech. Nicolas-Sebastian Chamfort
- In an immoral society, all inventions that increase man's power over nature are not only not good, but undoubted and obvious evil. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
- The humble author strives not to lie. Big - aims to tell the truth. Leonid Zorin
- After all, in every case the existence of two parties is revealed, conservative and progressive, eternal parties corresponding to the two sides of human nature; force of habit and desire for improvement. Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky
- Remember that happiness does not depend on who you are or what you have; it depends entirely on what you think about it. Dale Carnegie
- All people, from the very beginning and before any legal act, are in possession of the land, that is, they have the right to be where nature or chance placed them. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
- While the author is alive, we evaluate his abilities by the worst books, and only when he is dead - by the best. Samuel Johnson
- A vain gift, a random gift, Life, why were you given to me? A.S. Pushkin
- The writer will always be in opposition to politics as long as politics itself is in opposition to culture. Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasyevich
- Kindness in a woman, not seductive glances, will win my love. William Shakespeare
- Writers who embellish language and treat it as an object of art thereby make it a more flexible tool, more suitable for conveying thought. So the analyst, pursuing purely aesthetic goals, contributes to the creation of a language more adapted to satisfy the physicist. Jules Henri Poincaré
- If there is no meaning in death, then there was no meaning in life. Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov
- Scripture is industrious idleness. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- A woman is the embodiment of matter triumphing over the spirit. Oscar Wilde
- The nationality of the writer is determined by the language. The language in which he writes. Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov
- A woman can leave her lover, but she will never leave her dresses. Erich Maria Remarque
- We ourselves are created from dreams And this little life of ours is surrounded by Dreams... William Shakespeare
- Women have only one means of making us happy and thirty thousand means of making us unhappy. Heinrich Heine
- Better let me be ashes and dust! It would be better for my flame to dry up in a blinding flash than for mold to choke it out! Jack London
- Life is without beginning and end. Opportunity awaits us all. Alexander Blok
- He who did not know how to limit himself never knew how to write. Nicola Boileau
- Life is a deception with enchanting melancholy... S. A. Yesenin
- When you love, you want to do something in the name of love. I want to sacrifice myself. I want to serve. Ernst Miller Hemingway
- Life is not a reward for the vanquished. Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov
- Anyone can write a three-volume novel. All that is needed for this is to have absolutely no knowledge of either life or literature. Oscar Wilde
- He who doesn't burn smokes. This is the law. Long live the flame of life! Nikolai Alexandrovich Ostrovsky
- Evil cannot be defeated, because the fight against evil is life itself. Alexandr Duma
- Literature serves as a representative of the mental life of the people. N. A. Nekrasov
- Life is ten percent what you do in it, and ninety percent how you receive it. Somerset Maugham
- Wisdom is a set of truths obtained by the mind, observation and experience and applied to life - it is the harmony of ideas with life. I. A. Goncharov
- Life is a strange thing. Jack London
- Science is the most important, the most beautiful and necessary in a person’s life, it has always been and will be the highest manifestation of love, only with it alone will a person conquer nature and himself. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- If there is no further growth, then sunset is near. Seneca
- You can't love all women, but you have to strive for it. Jorge Amadou
- Human souls, like rivers and plants, also need rain. Special rain - hope, faith and the meaning of life. If there is no rain, everything in the soul dies. Paulo Coelho
- Misfortune softens a person; His nature then becomes more sensitive and accessible to the understanding of objects that surpass the concept of a person in an ordinary and everyday situation. Nikolay Gogol
- A truly polite person is always full of love. He loves the person he wants to know in order to save him. Max Frisch
- Leave three men together after dinner, and you can be sure that the conversation will turn to women and that the older one will start it. Alexander Dumas son
- They say that it is good to die while saving the life of another. D. Boccaccio
- The first and undoubted duty of a person is to participate in the struggle with nature for his life and the lives of other people. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
- Life is fullest and most interesting when a person struggles with what prevents him from living. Maksim Gorky
- Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man is a worker in it. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
- The artist’s view of the phenomena of external and internal life differs from the ordinary: he is colder and more passionate. Thomas Mann
- The public likes to be treated like women, to whom you tell only what they like to hear. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- The human heart contains true chivalry: it is capable of love. Chivalrous behavior grows from the depths of the heart. Johann Wolfgang Goethe
- The hands of a kind woman wrapped around a man’s neck are a life preserver thrown to him by fate from the sky. Jerome Klapka Jerome
- Every person has a little bit of everything mixed in, and life squeezes one thing out of this mixture to the surface. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
- The most beloved women were those whom their lovers rarely saw. Andre Maurois
- Most of our life is spent making mistakes and bad deeds; a significant part is spent in inaction, and almost always our whole life consists of us doing the wrong thing. Stendhal
- Labor is a necessary condition of human life, and labor gives benefit to man. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
- “You can always find enough time if you use it well” J. V. Goethe
- Whole nature is in the human soul. A. V. Koltsov
Topics of the issue: statements, sayings, aphorisms and quotes from great writers on various topics...
The Russian language is rightfully considered one of the richest languages in the world. Our selection of quotes includes statements and reflections of the great Russian classics of literature about the originality and greatness of the Russian language.
A.I.Kuprin
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, like a rainbow after the spring rain, accurate as arrows, sincere, like 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 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.I. Kuprin
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
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
A.I.Kuprin
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.
I.S. Turgenev
There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.
K.G. Paustovsky
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is enriched with amazing speed.
Maksim Gorky
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 more precious than the thing itself.
N.V. Gogol
There is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, would burst out from under the very heart, would seethe and vibrate so vividly, like a well-spoken Russian word.
N.V. Gogol
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 that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice!
N.M. Karamzin
Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilled 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
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
To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste.
V.G. Belinsky
Only having mastered the original material, that is, our native language, to the possible perfection, will we be able to
learn a foreign language, but not before.
F.M. Dostoevsky
Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I don’t like words with a lot of hissing and whistling sounds, so I avoid them.
A.P. Chekhov
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.
N.A.Dobrolyubov
The main character of our language lies in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, internal lyrical feelings, “the scurrying of life,” a cry of indignation, sparkling prank and amazing passion.
A.I. Herzen
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.
K.G. Paustovsky
The natural richness of the Russian language and speech is so great that without further ado, listening to the times with your heart, in close communication with the common man and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket, you can become an excellent writer.
MM. Prishvin
By the attitude of each person to his language, one can accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value.
K.G. Paustovsky
To handle the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly.
A.N. Tolstoy
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.
A.P. Chekhov
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 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
You can do wonders with the Russian language!