Statements by prominent writers about the Russian language. Statement about the Russian language

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 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

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

A.N. Tolstoy

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

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

A.P. Chekhov

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

K. Paustovsky

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

A.N. Tolstoy

...Real, strong, where necessary - gentle, touching, where necessary - strict, where necessary - passionate, where necessary - lively and lively 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 the foreign aesthetes themselves, is not inferior to Latin either in courage, Greek or smoothness, it surpasses everything European languages: Italian, Spanish and French, not to mention German.

G. Derzhavin

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

IN AND. Lenin

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

A. N. Tolstoy

The immortality of a people is in its language.

Ch. Aitmatov

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

K. G. Paustovsky

It's not scary to lie dead under bullets,

It's not bitter to be homeless,

And we will save you, Russian speech,

The Great Russian Word.

We will carry you free and clean,

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

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 those who are afraid cannot come there deep water.

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 Spanish It is decent to speak with God, French with friends, German with the enemy, 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

Who doesn't know foreign languages, he 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... In a wondrous script, the people wove the invisible network of the Russian language: bright as a rainbow after the spring rain, accurate as arrows, sincere as a song over the cradle, melodious... A dense world to which he cast the magic net of the word and submitted to it 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, as aptly said 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 language!

He is your great, mighty mentor,

He is a translator, he is a guide.

If you storm knowledge steeply -

Learn Russian language!

Gorky's vigilance, Tolstoy's vastness,

Pushkin's lyrics are a pure spring

They shine with the mirror image of the Russian word.

Learn Russian language"

S. Abdullah

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

I.S. Turgenev

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

I.S. Turgenev

Strive to enrich the mind and beautify the Russian word.

M. V. Lomonosov

Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison.

M.Yu.Lermontov

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

A. S. Pushkin

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

A. S. Pushkin

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

A.N. Tolstoy

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

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

A.P. Chekhov

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

K. Paustovsky

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

A.N. Tolstoy

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

L.N. Tolstoy

A dictionary is the entire internal history of a people.

N. A. Kotlyarovsky

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

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

A.I. Herzen

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

Language is the confession of the people,

His soul and life are dear.

P. A. Vyazemsky

There are books on my table,

Lots of happy books!

The teacher revealed them to me -

Wise Russian language!

Etibor Akhunov

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

G. Derzhavin

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

IN AND. Lenin

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

A. N. Tolstoy

The immortality of a people is in its language.

Ch. Aitmatov

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

K. G. Paustovsky

It's not scary to lie dead under bullets,

It's not bitter to be homeless,

And we will save you, Russian speech,

The Great Russian Word.

We will carry you free and clean,

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

Anna Akhmatova

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

A. S. Khomyakov

Before you is a community - the Russian language!

N.V.Gogol

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

A. I. Kuprin

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

V. M. Illich-Svitych

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

M. A. Sholokhov

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

M. Gorky

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

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

A.P.Chekhov

Language, our magnificent language.

River and steppe expanse in it,

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

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

K.D.Balmont

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

A.I. Kuprin

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

K.D. Ushinsky

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

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

S.Ya.Marshak

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

The language is free, wise and simple

Generations have given us an inheritance.

Krylov and Pushkin, Chekhov and Tolstoy

They preserved it in their creations.

I.S. Turgenev

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

L.N. Tolstoy

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

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

Prosper Merimee

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

K.G.Paustovsky

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

A.P. Sumarokov

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

V.G. Belinsky

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

You can do wonders with the Russian language!

K.G. Paustovsky

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

A.N. Tolstoy

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

M. Gorky

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

Bella Akhmadulina

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

A. Kuprin

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

F. Engels

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

N.V.Gogol

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

I.S. Turgenev

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

V. I. Dal

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

F.M.Dostoevsky

If you want to beat fate,

If you are looking for joy in a flower garden,

If you need solid support, -

Learn Russian language!

He is your great, mighty mentor,

He is a translator, he is a guide.

If you storm knowledge steeply -

Learn Russian language!

Gorky's vigilance, Tolstoy's vastness,

Pushkin's lyrics are a pure spring

They shine with the mirror image of the Russian word.

Learn Russian language"

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 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 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 the 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

Use foreign word, when there is a Russian word equivalent to it, it 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 are crawling into large quantities: arrived, worked, 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 Russian 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

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

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 gems 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.