Statements about the Russian language in your own words. Statements by prominent writers about the Russian language
Take care of the properties of your own language, because what we love in the Latin, French or German style is sometimes worthy of laughter in Russian.
M. Lomonosov
V. Belinsky
A. Kuprin
F.M.Dostoevsky
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.
N.V.Gogol
K. Paustovsky
Language is the centuries-old work of an entire generation.
V. I. Dal
New words of foreign origin are introduced into the Russian press incessantly and often completely unnecessarily, and - what is most offensive - these harmful exercises are practiced in the very organs where Russian nationality and its characteristics are most ardently advocated.
N. S. Leskov
The people express themselves most fully in their language. A people and a language, one without the other, cannot be represented.
I. I. Sreznevsky
Language is the most precious treasure of a people, the first means of its development and the guarantee of all spiritual successes, the main right to glory in posterity.
M. P. Pogodin
Language is the confession of the people, / Its soul and way of life are native.
P. A. Vyazemsky
...It is not for nothing that long-suffering peoples, enduring the most terrible blows of fate, cannot only endure the death of their native word...
N. A. Kotlyarevsky
The incorrect use of words leads to errors in the field of thought and then in the practice of life.
D. Pisarev
Where the word has not perished, the deed has not yet perished.
A. I. Herzen
The heavenly beauty of our language / Will never be trampled upon by cattle.
M. V. Lomonosov
Based on the attitude of each person to his language, one can accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value. True love for one's country is inconceivable without love for one's language. A person who is indifferent to his language is a savage. His indifference to the language is explained by his complete indifference to the past and future of his people.
K.G.Paustovsky
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language, this treasure, this heritage passed on to us by our predecessors... Treat this powerful weapon with respect, in the hands of skilled people it can perform miracles. Take care of the purity of your language as if it were a sacred thing. Never use foreign words. The Russian language is so rich and deep that we have nothing to take from those who are poorer than us.
I.S. Turgenev
We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language. True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language. We learn language and must learn it continuously until the last days of our lives.
I.S. Turgenev
Language is a tool of thinking. To handle language in a haphazard manner means to think haphazardly: imprecisely, approximately, incorrectly.
A. N. Tolstoy
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language; everything excites, breathes, lives.
A. S. Khomyakov
The immortality of a people is in its language.
Ch. Aitmatov
There are a great many good words for everything in the Russian language.
K.G.Paustovsky
Rich, sonorous, lively, distinguished by the flexibility of stress and infinitely varied in onomatopoeia, capable of conveying the finest shades, endowed, like Greek, with almost limitless creative thought, the Russian language seems to us created for poetry.
P. Merimee
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 word is the deed.
L.N. Tolstoy
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.
M. Gorky
As a material for literature, the Slavic Russian language has undeniable superiority over all European languages.
A.S. Pushkin
The Russian people are the first people in the world in terms of their glory and power, in terms of their sonorous, rich, powerful language, which has no analogue in Europe!
V.K.Kuchelbecker
Native speech is the basis of the Fatherland.
Do not muddy the Divine spring,
Protect yourself: the soul gives birth to a word -
The Great Svyatorussky is our language.
Hieromonk Roman
Language is a heritage received from ancestors and left to descendants, a legacy that must be treated with fear and respect, as something sacred, invaluable and inaccessible to insult.
F. Nietzsche
We must protect our language from contamination, remembering that the words we use now - with the transfer of a certain number of new ones - will serve many centuries after you to express ideas and thoughts still unknown to us, to create new poetic creations that are beyond our foresight. 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
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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 much as a well-spoken Russian word.
M. Gorky
The Russian language is quite rich, but it has its own shortcomings, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: - lice, - lice, - vshu, - shcha, - shchi. On the first page of your story, lice crawl in large numbers: those who arrived, those who worked, those who spoke. It is quite possible to do without insects.
F. M. Dostoevsky
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.
V. I. Lenin
We are spoiling the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. We use them incorrectly. Why say “defects” when you can say shortcomings, or shortcomings, or gaps?.. Isn’t it time for us to declare war on the use of foreign words unnecessarily?
A. I. Kuprin
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.
K. G. Paustovsky
There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.
A. P. Chekhov
Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I don’t like words with a lot of hissing and whistling sounds, so I avoid them.
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!
V. G. Belinsky
To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste.
V. G. Belinsky
By necessity, many foreign words entered the Russian language, because many foreign concepts and ideas entered Russian life. This phenomenon is not new... Inventing your own terms to express other people's concepts is very difficult, 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. [...] an unsuccessfully invented Russian word to express the concept is not only not better, but decidedly worse than the foreign word.
N. S. Leskov
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.
Prosper Merimee
The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades.
G. R. Derzhavin
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.
Friedrich Engels
How beautiful the Russian language is! All the advantages of German without its terrible rudeness.
F. M. Dostoevsky
The more national we are, the more we will be Europeans (all people).
A. I. Kuprin
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
Statements by prominent writers about the Russian language
Russian language! For millennia, the people created this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent, poetic and labor instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future. A. N. Tolstoy
The Russian language is, first of all, Pushkin - the indestructible mooring of the Russian language. These are Lermontov, Leo Tolstoy, Leskov, Chekhov, Gorky.
A. Ya. Tolstoy
The language, which the Russian state rules over a great part of the world, has a natural abundance, beauty and strength in its power, which is not inferior to any European language. And for this there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection as we are surprised at in others .M. V. 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. Y. A. Dobrolyubov
That the Russian language is one of the richest languages in the world, there is no doubt about it. V. G. Belinsky
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
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. N.V. Gogol
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious. .A. I. Kuprin
May there be honor and glory to our language, which in its native richness, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud, majestic river - it makes noise, thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles like a gentle brook and sweetly flows into soul, forming all the measures that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice! N. M. Karamzin
We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language. K. G. Paustovsky
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
The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades. P. Merimee
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed. M. Gorky
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.
I. S. Turgenev
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 rapidly 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 the Russian language:
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
A. I. Kuprin
We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language.
K. G. Paustovsky
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
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language; everything excites, breathes, lives.
A. S. Khomyakov
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.
M. Gorky
The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades.
P. Merimee
Many Russian words themselves radiate poetry, just as precious stones radiate a mysterious shine...
K. G. Paustovsky
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.
N.V. Gogol
Our beautiful language, under the pen of uneducated and inexperienced writers, is rapidly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of one and all.
A. S. Pushkin
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?
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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
To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste.
V. Belinsky
In fact, for an intelligent person, speaking poorly should be considered as indecent as not being able to read and write.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
To handle language in a haphazard manner means to think haphazardly: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly.
A.N. Tolstoy
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.
I. S. Turgenev
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
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
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.
N. Gogol
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
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
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
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
It's not scary to lie dead under bullets,
It's not bitter to be left homeless, -
And we will save you, Russian speech,
Great Russian word.
We will carry you free and clean,
And we’ll give you grandchildren, and we’ll save you from captivity,
Forever.
The beauty of speech lies not only in the beauty of its construction, but also in the exceptional beauty of its sound. For example, I consider it the highest achievement to avoid hissing and whistling sounds.
The Russian language is so rich that there are no colors, sounds or images that it cannot describe and express.
The extent to which the Russian language rebels against an unprepared person can be truly shocking.
One should not belittle the role of literature in human life by referring to its vile examples created by amateurs. That's not why she's valued.
Words borrowed from foreign languages should be used exclusively in cases where it is impossible to use the native language instead. This is the only way to save our beautiful language from damage.
The use, both appropriately and inappropriately, of words borrowed from foreign languages not only demonstrates a person’s bad taste, but also allows one to doubt his sanity.
The Russian language is the richest language on Earth, so why borrow from those who are already poorer than us? Isn’t it better to generously gift foreigners with the traditions of Russian speech?
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The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious. – A. Kuprin
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. – N. Gogol
The more national we are, the more we will be Europeans (all people). – F. Dostoevsky
By necessity, many foreign words entered the Russian language, because many foreign concepts and ideas entered Russian life. This phenomenon is not new... Inventing your own terms to express other people’s concepts is very difficult, 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. […] an unsuccessfully invented Russian word to express a concept is not only not better, but decidedly worse than a foreign word. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious. / Writer A. I. Kuprin
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. – V. 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
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 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. – N. Gogol
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. A. S. Pushkin
New words of foreign origin are introduced into the Russian press incessantly and often completely unnecessarily, and - what is most offensive - these harmful exercises are practiced in the very organs where Russian nationality and its characteristics are most ardently advocated. Nikolay Semyonovich Leskov
To handle language in a haphazard manner means to think haphazardly: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly. / Writer A.N. Tolstoy
In literature, as in life, it is worth remembering one rule: a person will repent a thousand times for saying a lot, but never for saying little. / A.F. Pisemsky
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
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
Not a single spoken word has brought as much benefit as many unspoken ones. / Ancient thinker Plutarch
To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste. – V. Belinsky
The perception of other people's words, especially without necessity, is not enrichment, but damage to the language. – A. Sumarokov
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
The more national we are, the more we will be Europeans (all people). Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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
Only literature is not subject to the laws of decay. She alone does not recognize death. / M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
How beautiful the Russian language is! All the advantages of German without its terrible rudeness. – F. Engels
The Russian language is quite rich, but it has its own shortcomings, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: - lice, - lice, - lice, - shcha, - shchi. On the first page of your story, lice crawl in large numbers: those who arrived, those who worked, those who spoke. It is quite possible to do without insects. Maksim Gorky
In fact, for an intelligent person, speaking poorly should be considered as indecent as not being able to read and write. / Russian writer Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
We are spoiling the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. We use them incorrectly. Why say “defects” when you can say shortcomings, or deficiencies, or gaps?.. Isn’t it time for us to declare war on the use of foreign words unnecessarily? – Lenin (“On the purification of the Russian language”)
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. Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin
To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones. A. S. Pushkin
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
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language; everything excites, breathes, lives. / A. S. 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. / Soviet writer M. A. Sholokhov
We are spoiling the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. We use them incorrectly. Why say “defects” when you can say shortcomings, or deficiencies, or gaps?.. Isn’t it time for us to declare war on the use of foreign words unnecessarily? Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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
Follow the rule persistently: so that words are cramped and thoughts are spacious. / ON THE. Nekrasov
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
By the attitude of each person to his language, one can accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value. – K. Paustovsky
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. Turgenev
True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language. – K. Paustovsky
The heavenly beauty of our language will never be trampled upon by cattle.
How beautiful the Russian language is! All the advantages of German without its terrible rudeness. Friedrich Engels
That the Russian language is one of the richest languages in the world, there is no doubt about it. – V. Belinsky
A person's morality is visible in his attitude to the word. / Great Russian writer Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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. I. Turgenev
The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades. Prosper Merimee
Speech must comply with the laws of logic. / The great ancient thinker Aristotle
The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades. – P. Merimee
A dictionary is the entire internal history of a people. / Great Ukrainian writer N. A. Kotlyarevsky
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
