Reasoning of writers about the beauty of the Russian language. Quotes of great people about the Russian language

Russian language!

For thousands of years this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent,poetic and labor tool of his social life, your thoughts, your feelings,their hopes, their anger, their great future. A. V. Tolstoy

Let there be honor and glory to our language, which, in its native wealth, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud, majestic river - it rustles and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, murmurs in a gentle stream and sweetly flows into the soul, forming everything measures that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice! Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin

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

Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilful writers, is rapidly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes according to the arbitrariness of everyone and everyone. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like pearls themselves, and, really, there is another name for the most precious thing itself. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

In days of doubt, in days of painful reflections on the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, O great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! Without you - how not to fall into despair at the sight of everything that happens at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people! Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Pushkin also spoke about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight the thought, to bring the words into the correct ratio and to give the phrase lightness and the right sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notation. They firmly hold the text and do not allow it to crumble. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

Language is the history of the people. Language is the way of civilization and culture. That is why the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle hobby from nothing to do, but an urgent need. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin

Use a foreign word when there is an equivalent Russian word means to offend both common sense and common taste. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky

The Russian language in skillful hands and in experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin

Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed; but no one who is afraid of deep water can come there. Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych

Prostrate in the enrichment of the mind and in the decoration of the Russian word. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, it is a property handed down to us by our predecessors! Treat this mighty weapon with respect; in the hands of the skilful, it is able to perform miracles. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Only by assimilating the original material to the maximum possible perfection, that is, native language, we will be able to master a foreign language as well as possible, but not before. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I do not like words with an abundance of hissing and whistling sounds, I avoid them. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The word of the Briton will respond with the knowledge of the heart and the wise knowledge of life; the short-lived word of a Frenchman will flash and scatter like a light dandy; intricately invent his own, not accessible to everyone, smart-thin word, a German; but there is no word that would be so bold, brisk, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and trembling vividly, as aptly said Russian word. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

The language that the Russian power of the great part of the world commands, according to its power, has natural abundance, beauty and strength than any other European language does not yield. And for that there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection, which we are surprised at in others.Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

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

There is no doubt that the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky

The main character of our language lies in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, inner lyrical feelings, "mouse running around life", a cry of indignation, sparkling pranks and amazing passion. Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

Nothing is so ordinary for us, nothing seems so simple as our speech, but in the very essence there is nothing so surprising, so wonderful, as our speech. Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev

Among the splendid qualities of our language there is one absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable. It consists in the fact that in its sound it is so diverse that it includes the sound of almost all languages ​​of the world. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

The Russian language is revealed to the end in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know "to the bone" their people and feel the hidden charm of our land. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

There is one significant fact: we are on our stillin an unsettled and young language we can conveythe deepest forms of the spirit and thought of European languages.Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

The natural richness of the Russian language and speech is so great that, without further ado, listening to the time with your heart, in close communication with common man and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket you can become an excellent writer. Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin

The Russian language, as far as I can judge of it, is the richest of all European dialects and seems deliberately created to express the finest 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

Beauty, majesty, strength and wealth Russian language It is clear enough from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not know any rules for compositions yet, but they hardly thought that they existed or could exist. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness and strength. Maksim Gorky

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is enriched with astonishing speed. Maksim Gorky

The perception of other people's words, and especially without necessity, is not an enrichment, but a deterioration of the language. Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov

I do not consider foreign words good and suitable, if only they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russified ones. We must protect our rich and beautiful language from corruption. Nikolai Semenovich Leskov

There is no doubt that the desire to dazzle Russian speech with foreign words without need, without sufficient reason, is contrary to common sense and common taste; but it harms not the Russian language and not Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky

Our native language should be the main basis for both our general education and the education of each of us. Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky

We must love and preserve those samples of the Russian language that we have inherited from first-class masters. Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov

Language is important for a patriot. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin

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

Language is the history of the people. Language is the path of civilization and culture... That is why the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation with nothing to do, but an urgent need. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin

Knowledge of Russian language, - language, which in every possible way deserves study both in itself, for it is one of the most powerful and richest living languages, and for the sake of the literature it reveals, is no longer such a rarity. Friedrich Engels

Our heavenly beauty will never be trampled on by cattle. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

As a material of literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would be no exact expression in our language. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

To deal with the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, inaccurately, incorrectly. Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Language is an image of everything that existed, exists and will exist - everything that can only be embraced and comprehended by the mental eye of man. Alexey Fyodorovich Merzlyakov

Language is the confession of the people, His soul and way of life. Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky

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

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

It's not scary to lie dead under the bullets,
It's not bitter to be homeless,
And we will save you, Russian speech,
Great Russian Word.
We will carry you free and clean,
And we will give to our grandchildren, and we will save from captivity
Forever. Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

Follow the rule stubbornly: so that words are cramped, and thoughts are spacious. Nikolay Alekseevich Nekrasov

There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in Russian; everything excites, breathes, lives. Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years countless treasures of human thought and experience have accumulated and live forever in the word. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is enriched with astonishing speed. Maksim Gorky

The richer the language in expressions and turns, the better for a skilled writer. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

Beware of fancy language. The language should be simple and elegant. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison. Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov

The language of the people is the best, never fading and ever again blooming color of its entire spiritual life. Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky

Charles V, Roman emperor, used to say that Spanish it is proper to speak to God, French to friends, German to enemies, Italian to women. But if he knew the Russian language, then of course he would have added that it was decent for them to speak with 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 the strong figurativeness of Latin and Greek. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

No matter how you say it, the native language will always remain native. When you want to speak to your heart's content, none French word it doesn’t enter your head, but if you want to shine, then it’s another matter. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy


The main theme of the collection: quotes about the Russian language of the great people of the planet Earth.

  • The language, which the Russian power of a great part of the world commands, in its power has a natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to any European language. And for that there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection, which we are surprised at in others. Lomonosov M.V.
  • ... The language of Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dobrolyubov, Chernyshevsky is great and powerful ... And we, of course, stand for the fact that every inhabitant of Russia has the opportunity to learn the great Russian language. Lenin V.I.
  • The language of the people is the best, never fading and eternally re-blooming flower of its entire spiritual life. K.D. Ushinsky
  • Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language - this is a treasure, this is a property handed down to us by our predecessors! Treat this mighty weapon with respect. Turgenev I. S.
  • Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture... That is why the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation from nothing to do, but an urgent need. Kuprin A.I.
  • Thanks to the Russian language, we, representatives of multilingual literatures, know each other well. Mutual enrichment of literary experience goes through the Russian language, through the Russian book. The publication of a book by any writer of our country in Russian means access to the widest readership. Rytkheu Yu.S.
  • I do not consider foreign words good and suitable, if only they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russified ones. We must protect our rich and beautiful language from corruption. Leskov N. S.
  • In the course of the 18th century, modern Russian literature worked out that rich scientific language that we now possess; flexible and powerful language, capable of expressing both the most abstract ideas of German metaphysics and the light, sparkling play of French wit. Herzen A.
  • To use a foreign word when there is a Russian word equivalent to it means to insult both common sense and common taste. Belinsky V. G.
  • The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years countless treasures of human thought and experience have accumulated and live forever in the word. M.A. Sholokhov
  • There is one significant fact: in our still unsettled and young language we can convey the deepest forms of the spirit and thought of European languages.
  • In days of doubt, in days of painful reflections about the fate of my homeland - you are my only support and support, O great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! It is impossible to believe that such a language was not given to a great people! Turgenev I. S.
  • Verbiage - Russian language! Valery Igorevich Melnikov
  • The main character of our language lies in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, inner lyrical feelings, “mouse running around life”, a cry of indignation, sparkling pranks and amazing passion. Herzen A.
  • 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 finest 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. Merimee P.
  • Even if you don’t know whether a comma is needed here, according to the rules of the Russian language, or not, you are sure that in this place it is better to put it than not to put it. Alexey Kalinin
  • The Russian language is so great and powerful that any law in this language can be interpreted in your own way.
  • In almost the same Russian language, will means both the power to overcome and the symbol of the absence of barriers. Grigory Landau
  • The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is enriched with astonishing speed. Gorky M.
  • If the Russian language is so difficult for native speakers, then how difficult it must be for foreigners!
  • We spoil the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. We use them incorrectly. Why say "defects" when you can say shortcomings, or shortcomings, or gaps? ... Isn't it time for us to declare war on the use of foreign words without need? - Lenin ("On the purification of the Russian language")
  • True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for one's language. Paustovsky K. G.
  • The Russian language should become the world language. The time will come (and it is not far off) - the Russian language will be studied along all the meridians of the globe. Tolstoy A.N.
  • As is known from the story "In People", M. Gorky, in order to understand the word, repeated it for a long time. Let's use his experience: dependent. AND WAIT FOR THE CROWN Well, the Russian language, you are still powerful! Inna Veksler
  • Russian language! For thousands of years the people have been creating 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. Tolstoy L.N.
  • As a material of literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones.
  • The Russian language is, first of all, Pushkin - the indestructible mooring of the Russian language. These are Lermontov, Leskov, Chekhov, Gorky. Tolstoy L.N.
  • Who memorized English-Russian dictionary knows English.
  • Our native language should be the main basis for both our general education and the education of each of us. Vyazemsky P. A.
  • We must love and preserve those samples of the Russian language that we have inherited from first-class masters. Furmanov D. A.
  • By the attitude of each person to his language, one can absolutely accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value. Paustovsky K. G.
  • The natural richness of the Russian language and speech is so great that without further ado, listening to the time with your heart, in close contact with a simple person and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket, you can become an excellent writer. Prishvin M. M.
  • He could have become a great Russian poet, if not for two trifles: lack of hearing and ignorance of the Russian language. Alexander Krasny
  • Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness and strength. Gorky M.
  • New words of foreign origin are introduced into the Russian press incessantly and often quite unnecessarily, and - what is most offensive - these harmful exercises are practiced in those same ones. bodies where the most ardent stand for the Russian nationality and its features. Leskov N. S.
  • There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would be no exact expression in our language. Dostoevsky F. M.
  • Nothing is so ordinary for us, nothing seems so simple as our speech, but in the very essence there is nothing so surprising, so wonderful, as our speech. Radishchev A. N.
  • There is no doubt that the desire to dazzle Russian speech with foreign words without need, without sufficient reason, is contrary to common sense and common taste; but it harms not the Russian language and not Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it. Belinsky V. G.
  • The morality of a person is visible in his attitude to the word - L.N. Tolstoy
  • Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching the classical languages ​​in its richness, strength, freedom of location, abundance of forms. Dobrolyubov N. A.
  • Paustovsky K. G.
  • We have been given possession of the richest, most accurate, powerful and truly magical Russian language. Paustovsky K. G.
  • The master of many languages, the Russian language, not only by the vastness of the places where it dominates, but by its own space and contentment, is great before everyone in Europe. Lomonosov M.V.
  • Only by assimilating the original material, that is, the native language, to the best possible perfection, will we be able to master the foreign language to the highest possible perfection, but not before. Fedor Dostoevsky.
  • Russian literary language closer than all other European languages ​​to colloquial vernacular. Tolstoy A.N.
  • The beauty, grandeur, strength and richness of the Russian language is quite clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not know any rules for compositions, but they hardly thought that they exist or can be. Lomonosov M.V.
  • The Russian language is a language created for poetry, it is extraordinarily rich and remarkable mainly for its subtlety of nuances. Merimee P.
  • How beautiful is the Russian language! All the advantages of German without its terrible rudeness. Engels F.
  • The Russian language in skillful hands and in experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy. Kuprin A.I.
  • It seems that not only in Russian the words "pop" and "popularity" have the same root? Alexander Krasny
  • The Russian language is quite rich, it has all the means to express the most subtle sensations and shades of thought. Korolenko V. G.
  • Knowledge of the Russian language, a language that in every possible way deserves to be studied both in itself, for it is one of the most powerful and richest living languages, and for the sake of the literature it reveals, is no longer such a rarity ... Engels F.
  • The Russian language is so rich in verbs and nouns, so diverse in forms expressing inner gesture, movement, shades of feelings and thoughts, colors, smells, the material of things, etc., that it is necessary to understand this ingenious heritage of “muzhik power” when building a scientific language culture. Tolstoy A.N.
  • If you think and speak in words - Word knowledge, and if you use habits - the Russian language! Valery I. M.
  • The Russian language is revealed to the end in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone” and feel the hidden charm of our land. Paustovsky K. G.
  • You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like pearls themselves, and, really, there is another name for the most precious thing itself. Gogol N.V.
  • Russian language! For thousands of years the people have been creating 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. Tolstoy L.N.
  • Let there be honor and glory to our language, which in its native wealth, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud, majestic river - it makes noise, thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, murmurs in a gentle stream and sweetly flows into the soul, forming all the measures that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice! Karamzin N. M.
  • The Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of foreign estheticians themselves, is not inferior either in courage to Latin or in fluency to Greek, surpassing all European ones: Italian, French and Spanish, much more German. Derzhavin G. R.
  • The perception of other people's words, and especially without necessity, is not an enrichment, but a deterioration of the language. Sumarokov A.P.
  • Among the splendid qualities of our language there is one absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable. It consists in the fact that in its sound it is so diverse that it includes the sound of almost all languages ​​of the world. Paustovsky K. G.
  • Appearance, excluding ignorance of the Russian language. Valery Afonchenko
  • Surprisingly, in Sanskrit, the words and are denoted by one word:. In the Russian language, in my opinion, there are also quite a few words that could well merge into one. Well, let's say: and ... Pavlenko V. Yu.
  • The Russian language is great, for the bastard is the one who cripples it! Johnsen Koikoliner
  • There is no doubt that the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world. Belinsky V. G.
  • Rich Russian language: how much can be expressed in one word! And how much can they miss!
  • 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 can come there. Illich-Svitych V. M.
  • Take care of the purity of the language, like a shrine! 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. Turgenev I. S.
  • Language is important for a patriot. Karamzin N. M.
  • English is penetrating more and more persistently into the modern Russian language in order to completely disfigure it. Boris Krieger
  • Our language is expressive not only for lofty eloquence, for loud pictorial poetry, but also for gentle simplicity, for the sounds of the heart and sensitivity. It is richer in harmony than French; more capable of outpouring the soul in tones; represents more similar words, that is, consistent with and with the action expressed: a benefit that only indigenous languages ​​have. Karamzin N. M.
  • ... There is no word that would be so bold, briskly, so burst out from under the very heart, so seething and vibrant, like a well-spoken Russian word. Gogol N.V.

The assembly included famous quotes about the Russian language of the great people of today and the past.

The Russian language is not just a means of communication, it is an integral part of the culture in which the essence of the nation is expressed.

Numerous statements of great domestic and foreign writers And public figures about power, wealth and artistic expressiveness Russian language.

By Day Slavic culture and writing, we offer readers a selection of the most famous and vivid statements about the Russian language from the card file of citations of the Central State Library named after. A. M. Gorky.

Language, our magnificent language.
River and steppe expanse in it,
It has the screams of an eagle and the roar of a wolf,
The chant and ringing and incense of the pilgrimage. K. D. Balmont

"There is no doubt that the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world." V. G. Belinsky

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

"Writers are the creators of language (without which it is impossible to compose), and language brings immortality to time and people." A. A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky

The future is not so much for Russian poetry as for the language. This is such a language that, no matter what happens in the country, poetry will always produce something wonderful from its depths. It is language that gives rise to poets, and not poets give rise to language ... And, having such a language as Russian, we must understand: poetry is inevitable. And as long as this language exists, something wonderful will happen." I. A. Brodsky

“You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift; everything is grainy, large, like pearls themselves, and, really, there is another name for the most precious thing itself.” N. V. Gogol

"[...] our extraordinary language is still a mystery. It contains all the tones and shades, all the transitions of sounds from the hardest to the most tender and soft; it is boundless and can, living like life, be enriched every minute ..." N. V. Gogol

"It is expressed strongly Russian people!" N. V. Gogol

"[...] the Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is enriched with astonishing speed." M. Gorky

"Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness, strength." M. Gorky

I have the key to all sciences,
I am familiar with the whole universe -
It's because I own
Russian all-encompassing language ... S. P. Danilov

"[...] the Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of foreign estheticians themselves, is not inferior either in courage to Latin or in smoothness to Greek, surpassing all European ones: Italian, French and Spanish, much more German ... " G. R. Derzhavin

"Our Russian language, more than all the new ones, is perhaps able to approach the classical languages ​​in its richness, strength, freedom of location, abundance of forms. But in order to use all its treasures, you need to know it well, you need to be able to master it." N. A. Dobrolyubov

"As we say today, we will live tomorrow." F. M. Dostoevsky

Not mother's milk
Not by reason, not by hearing,
I am called Russian
To meet God's spirit.

So that, coming out of any crucible
And not burned with thirst,
I spoke to him in Russian,
He wanted to once. F. A. Iskander

Let there be honor and glory to our language, which in its native wealth, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud, majestic river - it makes noise, thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, murmurs in a gentle stream and sweetly flows into soul, forming all the measures that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice! N. M. Karamzin

"Our language is expressive not only for high eloquence, for loud, pictorial poetry, but also for gentle simplicity, for the sounds of the heart and sensitivity. It is richer in harmony than French; more capable of outpouring the soul in tones; represents more analogous words, that is, consistent with expressive action: the benefit that only indigenous languages ​​have!" N. M. Karamzin

"The Russian language in skillful hands and in experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy."A. I. Kuprin

"Language is the history of the people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. Therefore, the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation from nothing to do, but an urgent need." A. I. Kuprin

"The beauty, splendor, strength and richness of the Russian language is quite clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not know any rules for compositions, but they hardly thought that they exist, or can be." M. V. Lomonosov

"The language that the Russian power of the great part of the world commands, according 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 in others wonder." M. V. Lomonosov

"The Russian language is a language created for poetry, it is extraordinarily rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of shades." Prosper Merimee

“The Russian language, as far as I can judge of it, is the richest of all European dialects and seems purposely created to express the finest shades. Gifted with wonderful conciseness, combined with clarity, it is content with one word to convey thoughts when another language would need whole phrases". Prosper Merimee

"Rich, sonorous, lively, distinguished by the flexibility of stresses and infinitely varied in onomatopoeia, capable of conveying the finest shades, endowed, like Greek, with almost limitless creative thought, the Russian language seems created for poetry." Prosper Merimee

"The Russian language is revealed to the end in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know "to the bone" their people and feel the hidden beauty of our land." K. G. Paustovsky

"True love for one's country is inconceivable without love for one's language. A person who is indifferent to his language is a savage." K. G. Paustovsky

"The Russian language! For thousands of years the people have been creating 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

“In days of doubt, in days of painful reflections on the fate of my homeland, you are my only support and support, O great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how not to fall into despair at the sight of everything that happens at home? But one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people!" I. S. Turgenev

"Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, it is a property handed down to us by our predecessors, [...]! Treat this powerful tool with respect; in the hands of the skilled, it is able to perform miracles!" I. S. Turgenev

"[...] the Russian language is so viable, healthy and powerful that a thousand times over the centuries it has autocratically subordinated any language to its own laws and requirements. foreign word whichever enters its orbit." K. I. Chukovsky

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

There is a grace
In consonance with the words of the living,
And breathes incomprehensible,
Holy beauty in them.
M. Yu. Lermontov

Language is the confession of the people,
His soul and life are dear.
P. A. Vyazemsky

Blessed is he who firmly rules by word
And keeps his thought on his leash.
A. S. Pushkin

Sounding so wonderful in Pushkin,
Our tongue writhes in anguish,
When they send ungodly
On it, in Russian.
E. A. Evtushenko

Language, our magnificent language,
River and steppe expanse in it,
It has the screams of an eagle and a wolf roar,
The chant, and the ringing, and the pilgrim's incense.
K. D. Balmont

And we will save you, Russian speech,
Great Russian word.
We will carry you free and clean,
And we will give to our grandchildren, and we will save from captivity
Forever!
A. A. Akhmatova

Friends, take care of yourself
When you speak Russian.
After all, this is our native language -
Save it for your grandchildren!
E. Ya. Vesnik

He came to us by inheritance,
For us, he is the most precious
We replace someone else's copper
We do not dare to gold it.

Like a guardian of a precious cup,
We must save the gift of centuries
And the new brilliance of our life
Enrich native speech.
S. N. Sergeev-Tsensky

Learn Russian
If you want to fight fate
If you are looking for the joy of a flower garden,
If you need a solid support -
Learn Russian language!

He is your great mentor, mighty,
He is a translator, he is a conductor.
If you storm knowledge steep -
Learn Russian
S. Abdullah

... our wonderful language,
Metallic, sonorous, self-humming.
Rampant, well-aimed our language!
N. M. Yazykov

Word
Silent tombs, mummies and bones -
Only the word is given life:
From the ancient darkness, on the world churchyard,
Only letters are heard.

And we have no other property!
Know how to save
Though to the best of my ability, in the days of anger and suffering,
Our immortal gift is speech.
I. A. Bunin

Lords and those disappeared
Instantly and surely
When accidentally encroached
On the Russian essence of the language.
Ya. V. Smelyakov

There are speeches - meaning
Dark or insignificant
But they don't care
It is impossible to take.

How full of their sounds
Crazy desire!
They are tears of separation
They have the thrill of goodbye.

Won't get an answer
Amid the noise of the world
Of flame and light
born word;

But in the temple, in the midst of the battle
And wherever I will be
Upon hearing it, I
I know everywhere.

Without finishing the prayer
I will answer that sound
And throw myself out of the fight
I am towards him.
M. Yu. Lermontov

Words

Many words on earth. There are daily words -
The blue of the spring sky shines through them.

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

There are words - like wounds, words - like a court, -
They do not surrender with them and do not take prisoners.

Words can kill, words can save
In a word, you can lead the shelves behind you.

In a word, you can sell, and betray, and buy,
The word can be poured into smashing lead.

But there are words for all words in our language:
Glory, Motherland, Loyalty, Freedom and Honor.

I dare not repeat them at every step, -
Like banners in a case, I keep them in my soul.

Who often repeats them - I do not believe that
He will forget about them in fire and smoke.

He will not remember them on the burning bridge,
They will be forgotten by another in a high position.

Anyone who wants to cash in on proud words
Countless dust offends the heroes,

Those in dark forests and damp trenches,
Without repeating these words, they died for them.

Let them not serve as a bargaining chip, -
Keep them in your heart as a golden standard!

And do not make them servants in petty life -
Take care of their original purity.

When joy is like a storm, or sorrow is like night,
Only these words can help you!
V. S. Shefner

Native language!
He has known me since childhood.
On it for the first time I said "mom",
On it I swore stubborn fidelity,
And every breath is clear to me on it.
Native language!
He is dear to me, he is mine,
On it the winds whistle in our foothills,
It was the first time I heard
Birds babble to me in green at times.
But like a native
I love Russian language
I need him like heaven
Every moment.
On it live, quivering feelings
They opened up to me.
And the world opened up in them.

I understood the Russian word "happiness",
Great happiness to live in a big country,
With him I'm not afraid of grief and bad weather,
With him I will not burn in any fire.
Two rivers flow in the heart, without shallowing,
become one river...
Forgetting my native language, I will become numb.
Having lost Russian, I will become deaf.
T. M. Zumakulova

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The old syllable attracts me.
There is charm in ancient speech.
She happens to be our words
and more modern and sharper.

Shout: "Half the kingdom for the horse!" -
what a temper and generosity!
But it will come down on me
last fervor futility.

Someday I'll wake up in the dark
forever losing the battle,
and it will come to my mind
madman of the ancient decision.

Oh, what a half kingdom for me!
A child taught by the age
I will take a horse, I will give a horse
for half a moment with a man,

loved by me. God be with you,
Oh my horse, my horse, zealous horse.
I'm gratuitously your reason
I will weaken - and the herd is dear

you will catch up, you will catch up there,
in the steppe empty and red.
And I'm bored with ramblings
these victories and defeats.

I feel sorry for the horse! I'm sorry love!
And in a medieval manner
lies under my feet
just a footprint left by a horseshoe.
B. A. Akhmadulina

Word
On that day, when over the new world
God bowed his face, then
The sun was stopped by a word,
In a word, cities were destroyed.

And the eagle did not flap its wings,
The stars huddled in horror against the moon,
If, like a pink flame,
The word floated above.

And for the low life there were numbers
Like domestic, under-yoke cattle,
Because all shades of meaning
Smart number transmits.

The patriarch is gray-haired, under his arm
Conquering both good and evil,
Not daring to turn to the sound,
He drew a number in the sand with a cane.

But we forgot that shining
Only a word amid earthly anxieties,
And in the Gospel of John
It is said that the word is God.

We set him a limit
The meager limits of nature,
And, like bees in an empty hive,
smell bad dead words.
N. S. Gumilyov

Native language
My true friend! My enemy is insidious!
My king! My slave! Native language!
My poems are like altar smoke!
How fierce is my cry!

You gave wings to a crazy dream,
You wrapped your dream in fetters.
Saved me in the hours of impotence
And crushed with excess strength.

How often in the mystery of strange sounds
And in the hidden sense of words
I found the tune of the unexpected,
Poems that took possession of me!

But often, joy exhausted
Ile quiet intoxicated with longing,
I waited in vain to be in tune
With a trembling soul - your echo!

You wait like a giant.
I bow before you.
And yet I won't stop fighting
I am like Israel with a deity!

There is no limit to my perseverance.
You are in eternity, I am in short days,
But still, as a magician, submit to me,
Or turn the madman to dust!

Your wealth, by inheritance,
I, impudent, demand myself.
I'm calling, you answer
I'm coming - you be ready to fight!

But, defeated or winner,
I will fall down before you:
You are my avenger, you are my savior
Your world is forever my abode,
Your voice is the sky above me!
V. Ya. Bryusov

Statements about the Russian language

The Russian language is a language created for poetry, it is unusually rich and remarkable for its subtlety of shades.

P. Merimee

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 finest 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.

P. Merimee

Charles the Fifth, the Roman emperor, used to say that speaking Spanish with God, French with friends, German with the enemy, Italian with the female sex is decent. But if he were skilled in the Russian language, then, of course, he would add to that that it was decent for them to speak with all of them, for he found in it the splendor of Spanish, the liveliness of French, the strength of German, the tenderness of Italian, and, moreover, the rich and strong brevity in images. Greek and Latin languages.
The language, which the Russian power of a great part of the world commands, in its power has a natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to any European language. And for that there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection, which we are surprised at in others.

M. V. Lomonosov

The beauty, grandeur, strength and richness of the Russian language is quite clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not know any rules for compositions, but they hardly thought that they exist or can be.

M. V. Lomonosov

You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like pearls themselves, and, really, there is another name for the most precious thing itself.

N. V. Gogol

In every word there is an abyss of space, every word is immense ...

N. V. Gogol

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

M. A. Sholokhov

Every nation has distinguished itself in its own way, each with its own word, which, expressing any object, reflects in its expression part of its own character. The word of the Briton will echo with the knowledge of the heart and the wise knowledge of life; The short-lived word of a Frenchman will flash and scatter like a light dandy; the German will intricately invent his own, not accessible to everyone, cleverly thin word; but there is no word that would be so bold, brisk, so burst out from under the very heart, so seething and quivering like a well-spoken Russian word.

N. V. Gogol

Read folk tales, young writers, to see the properties of the Russian language.

A. S. Pushkin

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

V. I. Dal

Let there be honor and glory to our language, which in its native wealth, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud, majestic river - it makes noise, thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, murmurs in a gentle stream and sweetly flows into the soul, forming all measures that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice.

N. M. Karamzin

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

N. A. Dobrolyubov

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

V. G. Belinsky

There is no doubt that the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world.

V. G. Belinsky

Only by assimilating the original material, that is, the native language, to the best possible perfection, will we be able to master the foreign language to the highest possible perfection, but not before.

F. M. Dostoevsky

In days of doubt, in days of painful reflections about the fate of my homeland - you are my only support and support, O great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! Without you - how not to fall into despair at the sight of everything that happens 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 roomy.

A. I. Kuprin

Language is the history of the people. Language is the way of civilization and culture. Therefore, the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation with nothing to do, but an urgent need.

A. I. Kuprin

To deal with the language somehow means to think somehow: inaccurately, approximately, incorrectly.

A. N. Tolstoy

The word is the great weapon of life.

V. O. Klyuchevsky

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

M. Gorky

Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness and strength.

M. Gorky

The greatest value of a people is its language. The language in which he writes, speaks, thinks.<...>Language and thought are closely related. If language becomes impoverished, thinking becomes impoverished. Language is based in its development on writing, and in it mainly on literature. And literature is of tremendous importance for the development of morality.<...>Much has been written about the Russian language as the language of the people. This is one of the most perfect languages of the world, a language that has evolved over more than a millennium, producing in the 19th century the best literature and poetry in the world.

D. S. Likhachev

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 can come there.

V. M. Illich-Svitych

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

K. G. Paustovsky

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

K. G. Paustovsky

There are no such 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

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

K. G. Paustovsky

Many Russian words themselves radiate poetry, just as gems radiate a mysterious brilliance ...

K. G. Paustovsky

The natural richness of the Russian language and speech is so great that without further ado, listening to the time with your heart, in close contact with a simple person and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket, you can become an excellent writer.

M. M. Prishvin

Reflecting geographical expanse and "sociality" different peoples, the image of "ever-creating Russia", the Russian language carries the enduring values ​​of beauty and grace, which, according to Dostoevsky, "will save everything."

V. G. Kostomarov

A truly strong and healthy, balanced person will not needlessly speak loudly, will not swear and use slang words. After all, he is sure that his word is already weighty.

D. S. Likhachev

Sayings about literature

Literature in all its forms is nothing but the shadow of good conversation.

R. Stevenson

Literature gives us a colossal, vast and profound experience of life. It makes a person intelligent, develops in him not only a sense of beauty, but also an understanding - an understanding of life, all its complexities, serves as a guide to other eras and to other peoples, opens the hearts of people before you. In a word, makes you wise.

D. S. Likhachev

Literature is the expression of society, just as the word is the expression of man.

L. G. A. Bonald

Literature is the guide human mind the human race.

V. Hugo

No genre of literature contains as much fiction as biographical.

W. E. Channing (Channing)

Literature is withdrawn from the laws of corruption. She alone does not recognize death.

M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

Scholarly literature saves people from ignorance, and elegant literature from rudeness and vulgarity.

N. G. Chernyshevsky

Literature is born from the depths of the people's soul.

A. Mitskevich

Society finds in literature its real life, elevated to an ideal, brought to consciousness.

V. G. Belinsky

Literature ... must be faithful to the people, must passionately and zealously stand up for its progress, prosperity and happiness.

Ch. Dickens

Literature is when the reader is as talented as the writer.

M. A. Svetlov

Literature is such an occupation in which you have to prove again and again that you have a talent to people who are deprived of any talents.

J. Renard

Literature deteriorates only to the extent that people become more corrupt.

I. Goethe

The trouble with other literature is that thinking people do not write, and writers do not think.

P. A. Vyazemsky

In literature, as in life, one rule must be remembered that a person will regret a thousand times that he has said a lot, but never a little.

A. F. Pisemsky

Just as in politics one well-aimed word, one wit often has a more decisive effect than a whole Demosthenes speech, so in literature miniatures often live longer than thick novels.

S. Zweig

Quite a few literary works owes its success to the squalor of the author's thoughts, for it is akin to the squalor of the thoughts of the public.

N. Chamfort

Manuscripts do not burn.

Famous and wise sayings about the Russian language of Russian writers and famous people:

“Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, it is a property handed down to us by our predecessors! Treat this mighty weapon with respect; in the hands of the skilful, it is able to perform miracles" Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Our heavenly beauty will never be trampled on by cattle. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

The language of the people is the best, never fading and ever again blooming color of its entire spiritual life. Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky

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Language is the confession of the people, His soul and way of life. Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky

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In days of doubt, in days of painful reflections on the fate of my homeland, you alone are my support and support, O great, powerful, truthful and free Russian language! Without you, how not to fall into despair at the sight of everything that happens 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, inner lyrical feelings, “mouse running around life”, a cry of indignation, sparkling pranks and amazing passion. Alexander Ivanovich Herzen

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Language is the history of the people. Language is the way of civilization and culture. That is why the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle hobby from nothing to do, but an urgent need. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin

You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like pearls themselves, and, really, there is another name for the most precious thing itself. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol.

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I do not consider foreign words good and suitable, if only they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russified ones. We must protect our rich and beautiful language from corruption. Nikolai Semenovich Leskov

Knowledge of the Russian language, a language that deserves to be studied in every possible way, both in itself, for it is one of the most powerful 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 a Russian word equivalent to it is to insult both common sense and common taste.

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No matter how you say it, the native language will always remain native. When you want to speak to your heart’s content, not a single French word comes into your head, but if you want to shine, then it’s another matter. Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

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Among the splendid qualities of our language there is one absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable. It consists in the fact that in its sound it is so diverse that it includes the sound of almost all languages ​​of the world. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

The beauty, grandeur, strength and richness of the Russian language is quite clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors did not know any rules for compositions, but they hardly thought that they exist or can be. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

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

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We must love and preserve those samples of the Russian language that we have inherited from first-class masters. Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov

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

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Russian language! For thousands of years the people have been creating this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent poetic ... an instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future ... With wondrous ligature, the people weaved an invisible web of the Russian language: bright, like a rainbow after spring rain, well-aimed as arrows, sincere, like a song over a cradle, melodious ... The dense world, on which he threw the magic net of the word, submitted to him like a brimmed horse. A.N. Tolstoy

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There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in Russian; everything excites, breathes, lives. Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov

The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich, and everything is enriched with astonishing speed. Maksim Gorky

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There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would be no exact expression in our language. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky

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The Russian language in skillful hands and in experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and roomy. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin

But what disgusting bureaucratic language! Based on that position... on the one hand... on the other hand, 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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Prostrate in the enrichment of the mind and in the decoration of the Russian word. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

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Follow the rule stubbornly: so that words are cramped, and thoughts are spacious. Nikolay Alekseevich Nekrasov

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

Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilful writers, is rapidly declining. Words are distorted. Grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes according to the arbitrariness of everyone and everyone. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

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To deal with the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, inaccurately, incorrectly. Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Our native language should be the main basis for both our general education and the education of each of us. Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky

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Nothing is so ordinary for us, nothing seems so simple as our speech, but in the very essence there is nothing so surprising, so wonderful, as our speech. Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev

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The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is enriched with astonishing speed. Maksim Gorky

There is no doubt that the desire to dazzle Russian speech with foreign words without need, without sufficient reason, is contrary to common sense and common taste; but it harms not the Russian language and not Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky

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The Russian language is revealed to the end in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone” and 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 - in the Russian language there is a great variety good words and titles. Konstantin Paustovsky

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Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness and strength. Maksim 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 finest 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 time with your heart, in close contact with a simple person 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 the Briton will respond with the knowledge of the heart and the wise knowledge of life; the short-lived word of a Frenchman will flash and scatter like a light dandy; intricately invent his own, not accessible to everyone, smart-thin word, a German; but there is no word that would be so bold, brisk, so bursting out from under the very heart, so seething and trembling vividly, as aptly said Russian word. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

Only by assimilating the original material, that is, the native language, to the best possible perfection, will we be able to assimilate the foreign language as well as possible, but not before. F. Dostoevsky

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Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I do not like words with an abundance of hissing and whistling sounds, I avoid them. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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Charles V, the Roman emperor, used to say that it was proper to speak Spanish with God, French with friends, German with enemies, Italian with women. But if he knew the Russian language, then of course he would have added that it was decent for them to speak with everyone, because. I would have found in it the splendor of Spanish, and the vivacity 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 thought of European languages. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky

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As a material of 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 the thought, to bring the words into the correct ratio and to give the phrase lightness and the right sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notation. They firmly hold the text 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 can come there. Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych

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Let there be honor and glory to our language, which, in its native wealth, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud, majestic river - it rustles and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, murmurs in a gentle stream and sweetly flows into the soul, forming everything measures that consist only in raising and raising the human voice!

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Language is the history of the people. Language is the path of civilization and culture... That is why the study and preservation of the Russian language is not an idle occupation from nothing to do, but an urgent need. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin

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The perception of other people's words, and especially without necessity, is not an enrichment, but a deterioration of the language. Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov

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Language is an image of everything that has existed, exists and will exist - everything that can only be embraced and comprehended by the mental eye of man. Alexey Fyodorovich 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 have accumulated and live forever in the word. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov

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Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison. Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov

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The language, which the Russian power of a great part of the world commands, in its power has a natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to any European language. And for that there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection, which we are surprised at in others. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

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Beware of fancy language. The language should be simple and elegant. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Clever and wise sayings about the Russian language of great people, prominent figures of Russian civilization ...


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