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The Russian language is rightfully considered one of the richest languages in the world. Our selection of quotes contains statements and reflections of the great Russian classics of literature about the originality and greatness of the Russian language.

A.I. Kuprin

Russian language! For millennia, the people created this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustible, intelligent, poetic ... instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future ... The people weaved the invisible web of the Russian language in a marvelous ligature: bright as a rainbow following the spring rain, as accurate as an arrow, soulful as a song over a cradle, melodious ... , on which he threw the magic net of the word, obeyed him like a bridled horse.

A.N. Tolstoy

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

A.I. Kuprin

In days of doubt, in days of painful thoughts about the fate of my homeland - you alone are my support and support, oh great, mighty, truthful and free Russian language! If it weren't for you, how not to 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

I.S. Turgenev

There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which no precise expression could be found in our language.

K.G. Paustovsky

The Russian language is inexhaustiblely rich, and everything is enriched with astonishing rapidity.

Maksim Gorky

You marvel at the jewels of our language: every sound is a gift; everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and really, another name is more precious than the thing itself.

N.V. Gogol

There is no word that would be so sweeping, boldly, it would burst out from under the very heart, it would boil and tremble so vividly, as aptly spoken Russian word.

N.V. Gogol

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

N.M. Karamzin

Our beautiful language, under the pen of uneducated and unskilful writers, is rapidly falling into decline. Words are distorted. The grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of each and every one.

A.S. Pushkin

Pushkin also talked about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, bring words into the correct ratio and give the phrase lightness and correct sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notes. They hold the text firmly and prevent it from crumpling.

K.G. Paustovsky

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

V.G. Belinsky

Only by assimilating in the possible perfection the initial material, that is native language, we will be able to be as perfect as possible

learn a foreign language, but not before.

F.M. Dostoevsky

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

A.P. Chekhov

Our Russian language, more than all new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching classical languages in its wealth, strength, freedom of disposition, and an abundance of forms.

N.A. Dobrolyubov

The main character of our language consists in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, inner lyrical feelings, "running around life", a cry of indignation, sparkling prank and tremendous passion.

A.I. Herzen

Among the great qualities of our language, there is one that is completely amazing and subtle. It consists in the fact that in its sound it is so diverse that it contains the sound of almost all the languages of the world.

K.G. Paustovsky

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

MM. Prishvin

In relation to each person's attitude to his language, one can absolutely accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value.

K.G. Paustovsky

To deal with the language somehow means, and to think somehow: approximately, inaccurate, incorrect.

A.N. Tolstoy

But what a disgusting bureaucratic language! Based on that position ... on the one hand ... on the other hand - and all this is unnecessary. “Nevertheless” and “to the extent” the officials wrote. I read and spit.

A.P. Chekhov

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For millennia, countless treasures of human thought and experience have been accumulating and eternally living in the word.

M.A. Sholokhov

The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its own shortcomings, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vsha, -lice, -vshu, -shcha, -shey. On the first page of your story, "lice" crawl into a large number: worked, talked, arrived. It is quite possible to do without insects.

Maksim Gorky

You can work wonders with the Russian language!

The Russian language is great and mighty

The Russian language is great, because it is spoken for one hundred and fifty million inhabitants of Russia and millions more scattered on the earth, because great poets, writers, scientists, public figures thought and worked in it, because "War and Peace", "Eugene Onegin ”,“ Crime and Punishment ”,“ Chuk and Gek ”were created on it, because it is beautiful, flexible, melodious, deep, rich and multifunctional, because it is infinitely changeable, impressionable, receptive to new things.

Thoughts of the great - a scattering of silver stars in the night of human life
(Persian poet of the 13th century Aini ha-Geradi)

Statements of famous people about the Russian language

Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766-1826) - famous Russian historian, writer, public figure
— ... honor and glory to our language, which in its most native wealth, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud majestic river ...

N. V. Gogol (1809-1852) - Russian writer
— You marvel at the jewels of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, coarse, like the pearl itself ...

— ... there is no word that would be so ambitious, boldly, so it would burst out from under the very heart, would boil and vibrate as vividly as a well-spoken Russian word.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) - great Russian writer
— 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! ... one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great nation!

— ... our wonderful Russian language is a treasure, this heritage, passed down to us by our predecessors!

Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) - Russian writer
— The Russian language ... is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious.

Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky (1811-1848) - Russian literary critic, publicist
— There is no doubt that the Russian language is one of the richest languages in the world.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765) - Russian scientist-encyclopedist, writer, public figure
— The language that the Russian state of the great part of the world commands, by its power has natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to a single European language.

— The beauty, grandeur, strength and wealth of the Russian language is evident enough from the books written in the past

Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov (1836-1861) - Russian literary critic, publicist
— Our Russian language, more than all new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching classical languages in its wealth, strength, freedom of disposition, and an abundance of forms.

Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (1812-1870) - Russian revolutionary, writer, public figure
— The main character of our language consists in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, inner lyrical feelings, a cry of indignation, sparkling prank and tremendous passion.

Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky (1892-1968) - Russian, Soviet writer
— Among the great qualities of our language, there is one that is completely amazing and subtle. It consists in the fact that in its sound it is so diverse that it contains the sound of almost all the languages of the world..

— The Russian language opens up to the end in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who ... feel the innermost charm of our land.

— There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which no precise expression could be found in our language.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin (1873-1954) - Russian Soviet writer
— The natural wealth of the Russian language and speech is so great that without further ado, listening to the time with your heart, in close communication with a common man and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket, you can become an excellent writer.

Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) - famous French writer
— The Russian language, as far as I can judge about it, is the richest of all European dialects and seems to have been deliberately created to express the subtlest nuances. Endowed with wonderful conciseness, combined with clarity, he is content with one word to convey thought, when another language would require whole phrases for this.

Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) - great Russian Soviet writer, playwright, public and statesman
— The Russian language is inexhaustiblely rich and everything is enriched with an astounding rapidity.

Russian sayings with the word "language"

Language will bring to Kiev
Eat the mushroom pie and keep your mouth shut!
Do not shred cabbage with tongue
Tongue and sandals cannot be weaved.
He who storms with his tongue will not fight much
You can't keep up with your tongue barefoot
Twirl your tongue like a cow's tail
Your tongue is the first adversary
My tongue is my enemy
The man is raging, but the tongue is hostile
Language will not lead to good
Every forty ginet from her tongue
The little owl gets from its tongue
If only the tongue of a jay would fly at will
What's on the mind is on the tongue
Body language anchor
Language talks to God
Small tongue, but owns the whole body
Small tongue - shakes mountains
Language is a banner, leads a squad
The tongue feeds the head and brings it to beatings
The tongue gives water and feeds, and flogs the back

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 hobby, but an urgent need. (A. I. Kuprin)

To use a foreign word when there is a Russian word equivalent to it means to offend both common sense and common taste. (V.G.Belinsky)

The collection includes wise sayings and sayings about the Russian language of great people said by Russian writers, scientists and philosophers, as well as representatives of other peoples:

The beauty of our heavenly tongue will never be trampled upon by cattle. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Treat this powerful weapon with respect; in the hands of the skilled, it is capable of performing miracles. Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
The language of the people is the best, never fading and eternally blossoming color of all its spiritual life. Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky

Take care of the purity of the 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
Language is the confession of the people, His soul and life is native. Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky.
The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For millennia, countless treasures of human thought and experience have been accumulating and eternally living in the word. Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov
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! If it weren't for you, how not to 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
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 with nothing to do, but an urgent need. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
The perception of someone else's words, and especially unnecessarily, is not enrichment, but the deterioration of the language. Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov
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 hobby of having nothing to do, but an urgent need. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin
I do not consider foreign words to be good and suitable, if only they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russianized ones. We must protect our rich and beautiful language from damage. Nikolay Semenovich Leskov
Let there be honor and glory to our language, which in its very native wealth, almost without any alien admixture, flows like a proud, majestic river - rustles and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles with a gentle stream and sweetly flows into the soul, forming everything measures which are only. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (Our collection includes 3 statements about the Russian language from Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin)
There is no doubt that the Russian language is one of the richest languages in the world. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
You marvel at the jewels of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, coarse, like the pearl itself, and, really, a different name for the thing itself is even more precious. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
To use a foreign word when there is a Russian word equivalent to it is to offend both common sense and common taste. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
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 strongest and richest living languages, and for the sake of the literature it reveals, is no longer such a rarity ... Friedrich Engels.
There is one significant fact: in our still unsettled and young language, we can convey the deepest forms of spirit and thought of European languages. Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
True love for your country is unthinkable without love for your language. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
Ugly, discordant words should be avoided. I do not like words with an abundance of hissing and whistling sounds, I avoid them. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Say what you like, but the native language will always remain native. When you want to speak to your heart, not a single French word will enter your head, but if you want to shine, then it's another matter. Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy
The word of the Briton will echo with the knowledge of heart and wise knowledge of life; the short-lived word of the Frenchman will flash and scatter with an easy dandy; ingeniously thinks up his own, not everyone's cleverly thin word accessible to everyone, a German; but there is no word that would be so ambitious, boldly, that would burst out from under the very heart, would seethe and vibrate as vividly as the aptly spoken Russian word. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol.
The beauty, grandeur, power and wealth of the Russian language is evident enough from the books written in the past, when our ancestors did not know any rules for compositions yet, but they hardly thought that they were or could be. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
You can work wonders with the Russian language! Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
We must love and keep those samples of the Russian language that we inherited from first-class masters. Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov
The Russian language, as far as I can judge about it, is the richest of all European dialects and seems to have been deliberately created to express the subtlest nuances. Endowed with wonderful conciseness, combined with clarity, he is content with one word to convey thought, when another language would require whole phrases for this. (In our article, there are 2 statements about the Russian language from Prosper Mérimée - a French writer and translator, one of the first masters of the short story in France)
Our Russian language, more than all new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching classical languages in its wealth, strength, freedom of disposition, and an abundance of forms. Nikolay Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov
The Russian language is inexhaustiblely rich and everything is enriched with an astounding rapidity. Maksim Gorky
There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in Russian; everything excites, breathes, lives. Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov
The Russian language in skillful hands and in experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious. Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin (Wise sayings about Russian)
There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which no precise expression could be found in our language. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky.
Our native language should be the main basis of our general education and the education of each of us. Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky
But what a disgusting bureaucratic language! Based on that position ... on the one hand ... on the other hand - and all this is unnecessary. “Nevertheless,” and “to the extent,” the officials wrote. I read and spit. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Our beautiful language, under the pen of uneducated and unskilful writers, is rapidly falling into decline. Words are distorted. The grammar fluctuates. Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of each and every one. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
In relation to each person's attitude to his language, one can absolutely accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
Follow the rule stubbornly: so that words are cramped, and thoughts are spacious. Nikolay Alekseevich Nekrasov
To deal with the language somehow means, and to think somehow: approximately, inaccurate, incorrect. Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Prostrate in enriching the mind and embellishing the Russian word. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
Nothing for us is so ordinary, nothing seems so simple as our speech, but in the very being there is nothing so amazing, so wonderful, as our speech. Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev
The Russian language is the language of poetry. The Russian language is unusually rich in versatility and subtlety of shades. Prosper Merimee
There is no doubt that the desire to dazzle Russian speech with foreign words unnecessarily, without sufficient reason, is contrary to common sense and common taste; but it does not harm the Russian language or Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it. Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky
The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its own shortcomings, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vsha, -lice, -vshu, -shcha, -shey. On the first page of your story, "lice" crawl in large numbers: a worker, a speaker, a newcomer. It is quite possible to do without insects. Maksim Gorky
Our speech is predominantly aphoristic, distinguished by its conciseness and strength. Maksim Gorky
The Russian language opens up to the end in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know "to the bone" their people
The natural wealth of the Russian language and speech is so great that without further ado, listening to the time with your heart, in close communication with a common man and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket, you can become an excellent writer. Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin
Only having mastered the initial material in the possible perfection, that is, the native language, will we be able to be in the possible perfection
Charles V, the Roman emperor, used to say that it is decent to speak Spanish with God, French with friends, German with an enemy, Italian with a female sex. But if he knew Russian, then of course he would add to that that it is decent for them to speak to everyone, tk. I would find in him the splendor of Spanish, and the liveliness of French, and the strength of German, and the tenderness of Italian, and wealth, and a strong depiction of Latin and Greek. Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov
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
As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.
Among the great qualities of our language, there is one that is completely amazing and subtle. It consists in the fact that in its sound it is so diverse that it contains the sound of almost all the languages of the world. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky.
For thousands of years, the people have created this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustible rich, intelligent, poetic and labor instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings,
Pushkin also talked about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, bring words into the correct ratio and give the phrase lightness and correct sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notes. They hold the text firmly and prevent it from crumpling. Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
The richer the language in expressions and phrases, the better for a skilled writer. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin
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 with this way of expression. Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy. Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
The main character of our language consists in the extreme ease with which everything is expressed in it - abstract thoughts, inner lyrical feelings, "running around life", a cry of indignation, sparkling prank and tremendous passion. Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed; but one who is afraid of deep water cannot come there. Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych.
It is quite possible to do without insects. Maksim Gorky
Language is important to a patriot. Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin
The old syllable attracts me. There is a charm in ancient speech. It is more modern and sharper than our words. Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulina.
Language is an image of everything that existed, exists and will exist - everything that can only embrace and comprehend the mental eye of a person. Alexey Fedorovich Merzlyakov
in the fall and rise of the human voice! Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin.
Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison. Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov. Beware of exquisite language. The language should be simple and elegant. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The language that the Russian state commands in the great part of the world, by its power, has natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to a single European language. And for this there is no hesitation, so that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection, which we are surprised at in others. (Our collection contains 5 statements about the Russian language by Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov and it completes our list)

Topic of the collection: wise sayings and famous quotes, sayings about the Russian language of great people: Russian writers about the Russian language, Russian scientists, short and long.

STATEMENTS ABOUT RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

The Russian language is one of the richest languages in the world.
Who, if not the classics of our literature, know about! On this occasion, they expressed and wrote a lot of reflections. In the quotes below, our selection of sayings famous writers and poets about the value, self-sufficiency and wealth of the Russian language.

Language, our magnificent language
River and steppe expanse in it,
It contains the rattles of an eagle and a wolf's roar,
Chant and ringing and incense of worship.
Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont

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

Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin - Russian historian, writer and poet

True love for your country is unthinkable without love for your language.

Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky - writer

Our beautiful language, under the pen of unlearned and unskilled writers,
quickly tends to fall. Words are distorted. The grammar fluctuates.
Spelling, this heraldry of the language, changes at the will of each and every one.

You marvel at the jewels of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, coarse, like the pearl itself, and, really, a different name for the thing itself is even more precious.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - prose writer, playwright, poet, critic, publicist

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! If it weren't for you, how not to 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!

Pushkin also talked about punctuation marks. They exist to highlight a thought, bring words into the correct ratio and give the phrase lightness and correct sound. Punctuation marks are like musical notes.
They hold the text firmly and prevent it from crumpling.

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

Use a foreign word when there is a Russian word equivalent to it,
- means to offend both common sense and common taste.

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

Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin - writer

Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed;
but one who is afraid of deep water cannot come there.

Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych - comparative linguist

Prostrate in enriching the mind and embellishing the Russian word.

Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov - scientist, writer, historian, artist

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Treat this powerful weapon with respect; in the hands of the skilled, it is capable of performing miracles.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - poet, translator; corresponding member Imperial Academy sciences in the category of Russian language and literature

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

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

The word of the Briton will echo with the knowledge of heart and wise knowledge of life; the short-lived word of the Frenchman will flash and scatter with an easy dandy; ingeniously thinks up his own, not everyone's cleverly thin word accessible to everyone, a German; but there is no word that would be so ambitious, boldly, that would burst out from under the very heart, would seethe and vibrate as vividly as the aptly spoken Russian word.

Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol - prose writer, playwright, poet, critic, publicist

The language that the Russian state commands in the great part of the world, by its power, has natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to a single European language. And for this there is no hesitation, so that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection, which we are surprised at in others.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - writer, historian, scientist, artist

Our Russian language, more than all new ones, is perhaps capable of approaching classical languages in its wealth, strength, freedom of disposition, and an abundance of forms.

Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov - literary critic, publicist

That Russian is one of the richest languages in the world,
there is no doubt about that.

Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky - literary critic, publicist.

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

Alexander Ivanovich Herzen - writer, publicist, philosopher, revolutionary

Nothing for us is so ordinary, nothing seems so simple as our speech, but in the very being there is nothing so amazing, so wonderful, as our speech.

Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev - writer, philosopher, poet, revolutionary

The Russian language opens up to the end in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know "to the bone" their people
and feels the innermost beauty of our land.

Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky - writer

There is one remarkable fact: we are on our
unsettled and young language we can transmit
the deepest forms of spirit and thought of European languages.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky - writer, thinker

The Russian language, as far as I can judge about it, is the richest of all European dialects and seems to have been deliberately created to express the subtlest nuances. Endowed with wonderful conciseness, combined with clarity, he is content with one word to convey thought, when another language would require whole phrases for this.

Prosper Mérimée - French novelist and short story writer

The beauty, grandeur, power and wealth of the Russian language is evident enough from the books written in the past, when our ancestors did not know any rules for compositions yet, but they hardly thought that they were or could be.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - writer, historian, scientist, artist

Our speech is predominantly aphoristic,
differs in its compactness, strength.

The Russian language is inexhaustiblely rich and everything is enriched with an astounding rapidity.

Maxim Gorky - writer, prose writer, playwright

Perception of other people's words, and especially unnecessarily,
there is not enrichment, but corruption of the language.

Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov - poet, writer, playwright

I do not consider foreign words to be good and suitable, if only they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russianized ones.
We must protect our rich and beautiful language from damage.

Nikolay Semenovich Leskov - writer

There is no doubt that the desire to dazzle 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 and not the Russianliterature re, but only to those who are obsessed with her.

V Isarion Grigorievich Belinsky - literary critic, publicist

Our native language should be the main basis and our general education
and the education of each of us.

Petr Andreevich Vyazemsky - poet, literary critic

We must love and keep those samples of the Russian language,
which we inherited from first-class craftsmen.

Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov - writer

Language is important to a patriot.

Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin - writer, publicist and historian

In relation to each person's attitude to his language, one can absolutely accurately judge not only his cultural level, but also his civic value.

Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky - writer

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 with nothing to do, but an urgent need.

Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin - writer

Knowledge of Russian language, - language, which in every possible way deserves to be studied both in itself, for it is one of the strongest and richest living languages, and for the sake of the literature it reveals, is now not such a rarity ...

Friedrich Engels - German philosopher, one of the founders of Marxism

The beauty of our heavenly tongue will never be trampled upon by cattle.

Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - writer, historian, scientist, artist

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

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin - poet, playwright, prose writer

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

Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky - writer

To deal with the language somehow means, and to think somehow:
approximately, inaccurate, incorrect.

Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy - writer, poet, playwright, publicist

Language is an image of everything that existed, exists and will exist - everything that onlycan embrace and comprehend the mental eye of a person.

Alexey Fedorovich Merzlyakov - poet, literary critic

Language is the confession of the people, His soul and life is native.

Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky - poet, critic

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.

Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin - poet

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 mode of expression.

Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy - prose writer, playwright, publicist

It's not scary to lie under the bullets dead,It is not bitter to be left homeless,And we will save you, Russian speech,Great Russian Word.We will carry you free and cleanWe will give it to our grandchildren, and we will save from captivityForever.

Anna Andreevna Akhmatova - poet, writer, literary critic,
literary critic, translator

But what a disgusting bureaucratic language! Based on that position ... on the one hand ... on the other hand - and all this is unnecessary. “Nevertheless,” and “to the extent,” the officials wrote. I read and spit.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - writer, playwright

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

Nikolay Alekseevich Nekrasov - poet, writer, publicist

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

Alexey Stepanovich Khomyakov - poet, artist, publicist, theologian, philosopher

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For millennia, countless treasures of human thought and experience have been accumulating and eternally living in the word.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Sholokhov - writer, public figure

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

Maxim Gorky - writer, prose writer, playwright

The richer the language in expressions and phrases, the better for a skilled writer.

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin - writer, poet, playwright

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

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - writer, playwright

Tongue and gold are our dagger and poison.

Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov - writer, poet, playwright

The language of the people is the best, never fading and forever
the newly blossoming flower of his entire spiritual life.

Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky - teacher, writer

The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its own shortcomings, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vsha, -lice, -vshu, -shcha, -shey. On the first page of your story, "lice" crawl in large numbers: a worker, a speaker, a newcomer.
It is quite possible to do without insects.

Maxim Gorky - writer, playwright

Charles V, the Roman emperor, used to say that it is decent to speak Spanish with God, French with friends, German with an enemy, Italian with a female sex. But if he knew Russian, then of course he would add to that that it is decent for them to speak to everyone, tk. I would find in him the splendor of Spanish, and the liveliness of French, and the strength of German, and the tenderness of Italian, and wealth, and a strong depiction of Latin and Greek.

Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov - scientist, writer, historian, artist

Say what you like, but the native language will always remain native. When you want to speak to your heart, not a single French word will enter your head, but if you want to shine, then it's another matter.

Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy - writer, thinker

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

Prosper Merimee - French writer

You can work wonders with the Russian language!

Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky - writer

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

Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulina - poet, writer, translator

Take care of the purity of the 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 - poet, translator; Corresponding Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the category of the Russian language and literature

Our heavenly beauty will never be trampled underfoot by cattle. / The great Russian scientist Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov

As a material for literature, the Slavic-Russian language has an undeniable superiority over all European ones. / The great Russian writer A.S. Pushkin

There are two kinds of nonsense: one comes from a lack of feelings and thoughts, replaced by words; the other - from the fullness of feelings and thoughts and the lack of words to express them. / A. Pushkin

A person's morality is visible in his attitude to the word. / Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

In fact, for an intelligent person, speaking badly should be considered as indecent as not being able to read and write. / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

To deal with the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, inaccurate, incorrect. / A.N. Tolstoy

The dictionary is the whole internal history of the people. / Great Ukrainian writer N.A.Kotlyarevsky

Not a single spoken word did as much benefit as many unspoken ones. / Ancient Thinker Plutarch

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

In literature, as in life, it is worth remembering one rule that a person will repent a thousand times that he said a lot, but never that he said little. / A.F. Pisemsky

Only one literature is not subject to the laws of decay. She alone does not recognize death. / M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

Speech must comply with the laws of logic. / Ancient thinker Aristotle

Language is the confession of the people, His soul and life is native. / P. A. Vyazemsky

A beautiful thought loses all its value if it is badly expressed. / French writer and politician Voltaire

We spoil 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 use of foreign words unnecessarily? / Great leader, father of the revolution of 1917-1918. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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

The immortality of a people is in its language. / Ch. Aitmatov

It is not scary to lie under the bullets dead, It is not bitter to be left homeless, And we will save you, Russian speech, the Great Russian Word. We will carry you free and pure, And we will give to our grandchildren, and we will save you from captivity Forever. / Outstanding poet Anna Akhmatova

Follow the rule stubbornly: so that words are cramped, and thoughts are spacious. / ON THE. Nekrasov

Literature is valued everywhere, not because of its vilest examples, but because of those outstanding figures who lead society forward. / M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

There is nothing sedimentary or crystalline in Russian; everything excites, breathes, lives. / A. S. Khomyakov

Before you is the bulk - the Russian language! / Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol

The Russian language in skillful hands and in 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 one who is afraid of deep water cannot come there. / V.M. Illich-Svitych

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For millennia, countless treasures of human thought and experience have been accumulating and eternally living in the word. / Soviet writer M. A. Sholokhov

You must be honest with your words. / Outstanding Slavic writer N.V. Gogol

The Russian language is inexhaustiblely rich, and everything is enriched with amazing speed. / Soviet author Maxim Gorky

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

Beware of exquisite language. The language should be simple and elegant. / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Language, our wonderful language. River and steppe expanse in it, In it are the eagle's chunks and a wolf's roar, Chant, and ringing, and incense of praying. / Konstanty Dmitrievich Balmont

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 hobby of having nothing to do, but an urgent need. / A. Kuprin

The language of the people is the best, never fading and eternally blossoming color of all its spiritual life. / K.D. Ushinsky

The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its own shortcomings, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vsha, -lice, -vshu, -shcha, -shey. On the first page of your story, "lice" crawl in large numbers: a worker, a speaker, a newcomer. It is quite possible to do without insects. / Maxim Gorky wrote this way, instructing the young author

Who doesn't know foreign languages, he has no idea of his own. / German writer I. Goethe

The Russian language is the language of poetry. The Russian language is unusually rich in versatility and subtlety of shades. / French writer Prosper Merimee

Where there are few words, there they have weight. / English playwright William Shakespeare

True words are not graceful, graceful words are not true. / Chinese sage Lao Tzu

The word belongs to half to the one who speaks and half to the one who listens. / French writer and philosopher M. Montaigne

The word is a great thing. Great because a word can unite people, a word can separate them, a word can serve love, and a word can serve enmity and hatred. Beware of a word that divides people. / Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy

You can work wonders with the Russian language! / K.G. Paustovsky

Russian language! For thousands of years, the people have created this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustible, rich, intelligent poetic ... instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future ... The people have woven the invisible web of the Russian language with a marvelous ligature: as bright as a rainbow following the spring rain , sharp as an arrow, soulful as a song over a cradle, melodious ... The dense world, over which he had thrown a magic net of words, submitted to him like a bridled horse. / A.N. Tolstoy

The trouble with other literature is that thinking people do not write, and those who write do not think. / P. A. Vyazemsky

Dissonant and ugly words should be avoided. I do not like words with an abundance of whistling and hissing sounds, I try to avoid them. / Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The old syllable attracts me. There is a charm in ancient speech. It is more modern and sharper than our words. / Russian poet Bella Akhmadulina

Russian literature should not stoop to the level of society in its dubious and dark manifestations. In any circumstances, no matter what, literature should not deviate a single step from its main goal - to raise society to the ideal - the ideal of goodness, light and truth. / ON THE. Nekrasov

Many Russian words themselves radiate poetry, just as precious stones radiate a mysterious brilliance ... / K. G. Paustovsky

Prostrate in enriching the mind and embellishing the Russian word. / M.V. Lomonosov

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

Reading is the best teaching! / Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

Compiled by Tatiana Molchanova