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 such 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.
Maxim 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 - rustles 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 shortcomings, 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.
Maxim Gorky
You can do wonders with the Russian language!
The heavenly beauty of our language will never be trampled upon by cattle. / The great Russian scientist Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov
As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones. / Great Russian writer A. S. Pushkin
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
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
A person's morality is visible in his attitude to the word. / Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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 somehow means to think differently: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly. / A.N. Tolstoy
A dictionary is the entire internal history of a people. / Great Ukrainian writer N. A. Kotlyarevsky
Not a single spoken word has brought as much benefit as many unspoken ones. / Ancient thinker Plutarch
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
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
Only literature is not subject to the laws of decay. She alone does not recognize death. / M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
Speech must comply with the laws of logic. / Ancient thinker Aristotle
Language is the confession of the people, His soul and way of life are native. / P. A. Vyazemsky
A beautiful thought loses all its value if it is poorly expressed. / French writer and politician Voltaire
The Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of foreign aesthetes themselves, is not inferior to Latin either in courage, Greek or fluency, and surpasses all European languages: Italian, Spanish and French, not to mention German. / G. Derzhavin
We are spoiling the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. And we use them incorrectly. Why say “defects” when you can say gaps, shortcomings, shortcomings? Isn't it time to declare war on the unnecessary use of foreign words? / Great leader, father of the revolution of 1917-1918. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
What is language? First of all, it is not only a way to express your thoughts, but also to create your thoughts. Language has the opposite effect. A person who turns his thoughts, his ideas, his feelings into language... he is also, as it were, permeated by this way of expression. / A. N. Tolstoy
The immortality of a people is in its language. / Ch. Aitmatov
Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, bring words into the correct relationship, and give a phrase ease and proper sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notations. They hold the text firmly and do not allow it to crumble. / K. G. Paustovsky
It’s not scary to lie under dead 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, And we will give you to your grandchildren, and we will save you from captivity Forever. / Outstanding poetess Anna 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. / A. P. Chekhov
Follow the rule persistently: so that words are cramped and thoughts are spacious. / N.A. Nekrasov
Everywhere literature is valued not because of its most vile examples, but because of those outstanding figures who lead society forward. / M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language; everything excites, breathes, lives. / A. S. Khomyakov
Before you is a community - the Russian language! / Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious. / A. I. Kuprin
Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed; but no one who is afraid of deep water will be able to come there. / V. M. Illich-Svitych
The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word. / Soviet writer M. A. Sholokhov
Words must be handled honestly. / Outstanding Slavic writer N.V. Gogol
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is being enriched with amazing speed. / Soviet author Maxim 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 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. / Konstanti Dmitrievich Balmont
Language is the history of the people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why learning and preserving the Russian language is not an idle hobby with nothing to do, but an urgent necessity. / A. Kuprin
The language of a people is the best, never fading and ever-blooming flower of their entire spiritual life. / K.D. 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. / Maxim Gorky wrote this, mentoring the young author
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. / Famous scientist Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
He who does not know foreign languages has no idea about his own. / German writer I. Goethe
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
Russian language is the language of poetry. The Russian language is unusually rich in versatility and subtlety of shades. / French writer Prosper Merimee
Where there are few words, they have weight. / English playwright William Shakespeare
True words are not graceful, graceful words are not true. / Chinese sage Lao Tzu
The word belongs half to the one who speaks and half to the one who listens. / French writer and philosopher M. Montaigne
The word is a great thing. Great because with a word you can unite people, with a word you can separate them, with a word you can serve love, but with a word you can serve enmity and hatred. Beware of such a word that divides people. / Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
You can do wonders with the Russian language! / K.G. Paustovsky
Russian language! For millennia, the people created this flexible, lush, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent poetic... instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future... With a wondrous ligature the people wove the invisible network of the Russian language: bright as a rainbow after the spring rain , sharp as arrows, sincere as a song over a cradle, melodious... The dense world, over which he threw the magic net of words, submitted to him like a bridled horse. / A.N. Tolstoy
The trouble with other literature is that thinking people do not write, and those who write do not think. / P. A. Vyazemsky
Dissonant and ugly words should be avoided. I don’t like words with a lot of whistling and hissing sounds, I try to avoid them. / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The old syllable attracts me. There is charm in ancient speech. It can be more modern and sharper than our words. / Russian poetess Bella Akhmadulina
Russian literature should not stoop to the level of society in its dubious and dark manifestations. In any circumstances, by all means, literature should not deviate a single step from its main goal - to elevate society to an ideal - the ideal of goodness, light and truth. / N.A. Nekrasov
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 Vasilievich 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. / Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Many Russian words themselves emit poetry, just as precious stones emit a mysterious shine... / K. G. Paustovsky
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
Strive to enrich the mind and beautify the Russian word. / M. V. Lomonosov
Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison. / Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov
Reading is the best teaching! / Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
Compiled by Tatyana Molchanova
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?
Read the continuation of famous aphorisms and quotes on the pages:
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 expressing 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 Vasilievich 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 Vasilievich 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 the Russian nationality and its characteristics are most ardently advocated. Nikolay Semyonovich Leskov
To handle language somehow means to think differently: 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). Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
There are no such 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 shortcomings, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vshi, -vsha, -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. Maxim 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. Fyodor 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. / N.A. Nekrasov
There are no such 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
Famous and wise sayings about the Russian language by Russian writers and famous people:
“Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect; in skillful hands it is capable of performing miracles.” Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
The heavenly beauty of our language will never be trampled upon by cattle. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
The language of a people is the best, never fading and ever-blooming flower of their entire spiritual life. Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky
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Language is the confession of the people, His soul and way of life are native. Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky
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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! 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!
Language is important for a patriot. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin
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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
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Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why learning and preserving the Russian language is not an idle hobby with nothing to do, but an urgent necessity.” Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
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 Vasilievich Gogol.
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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
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
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True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language.
To use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to insult both common sense and common taste.
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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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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 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
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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
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We must love and preserve those examples of the Russian language that we inherited from first-class masters. Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov
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
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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
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There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language; everything excites, breathes, lives. Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is being enriched with amazing speed. Maxim Gorky
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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
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The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
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
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Strive to enrich the mind and beautify the Russian word. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
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Follow the rule persistently: so that words are cramped and thoughts are spacious. Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov
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
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. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
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To handle the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly. Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy
Our native language should be the main basis of our general education and the education of each of us. Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky
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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
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The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed. Maxim Gorky
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
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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.
For everything that exists in nature - water, air, sky, clouds, sun, rain, forests, swamps, rivers and lakes, meadows and fields, flowers and herbs - there are a great many good words and names in the Russian language. Konstantin Paustovsky
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Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness and strength. Maxim Gorky
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
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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
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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 Vasilievich Gogol
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
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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
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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
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There is one significant fact: in our still unsettled and young language we can convey the deepest forms of the spirit and thoughts of European languages. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
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As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
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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. Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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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
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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
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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 singing and raising the human voice!
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Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture... Therefore, studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing better to do, but an urgent necessity. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
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The perception of other people's words, especially without necessity, is not enrichment, but damage to the language. Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov
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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
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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
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Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison. Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov
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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
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Beware of refined language. The language should be simple and elegant. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Clever and wise sayings about the Russian language by great people, prominent figures of Russian civilization...
Statements about language
Take care of the purity of your language as a sacred thing! Never use foreign words. The Russian language is so rich and flexible that we have nothing to take from those who are poorer than us.
I.S. Turgenev
In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how can one not fall into despair at the sight of everything that is happening at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!
I.S. Turgenev
Strive to enrich the mind and beautify the Russian word.
M. V. Lomonosov
Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison.
M.Yu.Lermontov
As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones.
A. S. Pushkin
Our beautiful language, under the pen of 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
The Russian people created the Russian language, bright as a rainbow after a spring shower, accurate as arrows, melodious and rich, sincere, like a song over a cradle.
A.N. Tolstoy
The Russian language, more than any new language, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages in its richness, strength, freedom of arrangement, and abundance of forms. But in order to take advantage of all the treasures, you need to know it well, you need to be able to wield it. N.A.Dobrolyubov
In fact, for an intelligent person, speaking poorly should be considered as indecent as not being able to read and write.
A.P. Chekhov
There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language.
K. Paustovsky
To handle language in a haphazard manner means to think haphazardly: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly.
A.N. Tolstoy
...Real, strong, where necessary - gentle, touching, where necessary - strict, where necessary - passionate, where necessary - lively and living language of the people.
L.N. Tolstoy
A dictionary is the entire internal history of a people.
N. A. Kotlyarovsky
Not a single spoken word has brought as much benefit as many unspoken ones.
Plutarch
The main character of our language lies in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, internal, lyrical feelings... a cry of indignation, sparkling prank and amazing passion.
A.I. Herzen
Language is an image of everything that existed, exists and will exist - everything that the human mental eye can embrace and comprehend. A. F. Merzlyakov
Language is the confession of the people,
His soul and life are dear.
P. A. Vyazemsky
There are books on my table,
Lots of happy books!
The teacher revealed them to me -
Wise Russian language!
Etibor Akhunov
The Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of foreign aesthetes themselves, is not inferior to Latin either in courage, Greek or fluency, and surpasses all European languages: Italian, Spanish and French, not to mention German.
G. Derzhavin
We are spoiling the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. And we use them incorrectly. Why say “defects” when you can say gaps, shortcomings, shortcomings? Isn't it time to declare war on the unnecessary use of foreign words?
V.I. Lenin
What is language? First of all, it is not only a way to express your thoughts, but also to create your thoughts. Language has the opposite effect. A person who turns his thoughts, his ideas, his feelings into language... he is also, as it were, permeated by this way of expression.
A. N. Tolstoy
The immortality of a people is in its language.
Ch. Aitmatov
Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, bring words into the correct relationship, and give a phrase ease and proper sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notations. They hold the text firmly and do not allow it to crumble.
K. G. Paustovsky
It's not scary to lie dead under bullets,
It's not bitter to be homeless,
And we will save you, Russian speech,
The Great Russian Word.
We will carry you free and clean,
We will give it to our grandchildren and save us from captivity
Forever.
Anna Akhmatova
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in the Russian language; everything excites, breathes, lives.
A. S. Khomyakov
Before you is a community - the Russian language!
N.V.Gogol
The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.
A. I. Kuprin
Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed; but no one who is afraid of deep water will be able to come there.
V. M. Illich-Svitych
The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word.
M. A. Sholokhov
The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is being enriched with amazing speed.
M. Gorky
The richer the language is in expressions and turns of phrase, the better for a skilled writer. A.S. Pushkin
Beware of refined language. The language should be simple and elegant.
A.P.Chekhov
Language, our magnificent language.
River and steppe expanse in it,
It contains the screams of an eagle and the roar of a wolf,
The chanting, and the ringing, and the incense of pilgrimage.
K.D.Balmont
Language is the history of the people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why learning and preserving the Russian language is not an idle hobby with nothing to do, but an urgent necessity.
A.I. Kuprin
The language of a people is the best, never fading and ever-blooming flower of their entire spiritual life.
K.D. Ushinsky
Charles V, the Roman Emperor, used to say that it is proper to speak in Spanish with God, in French with friends, in German with the enemy, and in Italian with the female sex. But if he knew Russian, then of course he would have added that it is decent for them to speak to everyone, because... I would find in it the splendor of Spanish, and the liveliness of French, and the strength of German, and the tenderness of Italian, and the richness and strong figurativeness of Latin and Greek.
M.V. Lomonosov
We must protect the language from contamination, remembering that the words we use now - with the transmission 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
He who does not know foreign languages has no idea about his own.
I. Goethe
The language is free, wise and simple
Generations have given us an inheritance.
Krylov and Pushkin, Chekhov and Tolstoy
They preserved it in their creations.
I.S. Turgenev
No matter what you say, your native language will always remain native. When you want to speak to your heart’s content, not a single French word comes to mind, but if you want to shine, then it’s a different matter.
L.N. Tolstoy
Just as a person can be identified by his society, so he can be judged by his language.
J.Swift
The Russian language is the language of poetry. The Russian language is unusually rich in versatility and subtlety of shades.
Prosper Merimee
The Russian language is fully revealed in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone” and feel the hidden charm of our land.
K.G.Paustovsky
Our language is sweet, pure, and lush, and rich.
A.P. Sumarokov
The Russian language is extremely rich, flexible and picturesque in expressing simple, natural concepts.
V.G. Belinsky
Language is a heritage received from ancestors and left to descendants, a heritage that must be treated with fear and respect, as something sacred, invaluable and inaccessible to insult.”
F. Nietzsche
You can do wonders with the Russian language!
K.G. Paustovsky
Russian language! For millennia, the people created this flexible, lush, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent poetic... instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future... With a wondrous ligature the people wove the invisible network of the Russian language: bright as a rainbow after the spring rain , sharp as arrows, sincere as a song over a cradle, melodious... The dense world, over which he threw the magic net of words, submitted to him like a bridled horse.
A.N. Tolstoy
Language is a tool, you need to know it well and master it well.
M. Gorky
The old syllable attracts me. There is charm in ancient speech. It can be more modern and sharper than our words.
Bella Akhmadulina
Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That is why studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing to do, but an urgent necessity.
A. Kuprin
How beautiful the Russian language is! All the advantages of German without its terrible rudeness.
F. Engels
The word of a Briton will echo with heartfelt knowledge and wise knowledge of life; The short-lived word of the Frenchman will flash and scatter like a light dandy; the German will intricately come up with his own clever and thin word, which is not accessible to everyone; but there is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and vibrantly trembling, like a well-spoken Russian word.
N.V.Gogol
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect; in skillful hands it is capable of performing miracles. .. Take care of the purity of your language like a shrine!
I.S. Turgenev
Language is the centuries-old work of an entire generation.
V. I. Dal
Only having mastered the initial material, that is, our native language, to the possible perfection, will we be able to master a foreign language to the possible perfection, but not before.
F.M.Dostoevsky
If you want to beat fate,
If you are looking for joy in a flower garden,
If you need solid support, -
Learn Russian!
He is your great, mighty mentor,
He is a translator, he is a guide.
If you storm knowledge steeply -
Learn Russian!
Gorky's vigilance, Tolstoy's vastness,
Pushkin's lyrics are a pure spring
They shine with the mirror image of the Russian word.
Learn Russian"
S. Abdullah
