3 wise sayings about the Russian language. Statements by prominent writers about the Russian language

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

A.I.Kuprin

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

A.N. Tolstoy

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

A.I. Kuprin

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

I.S. Turgenev

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

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

I.S. Turgenev

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

K.G. Paustovsky

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

Maksim Gorky

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

N.V. Gogol

There is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, would burst out from under the very heart, would seethe and vibrate so vividly, like a well-spoken Russian word.

N.V. Gogol

May there be honor and glory to our language, which in its very native richness, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud majestic river - it makes noise and thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles like a gentle brook and sweetly pours into the soul, forming everything measures that consist only in the fall and rise of the human voice!

N.M. Karamzin

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

A.S. Pushkin

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

K.G. Paustovsky

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

V.G. Belinsky

Only having mastered the original material, that is, our native language, to the possible perfection, will we be able to

learn a foreign language, but not before.

F.M. Dostoevsky

Ugly, dissonant words should be avoided. I don’t like words with a lot of hissing and whistling sounds, so I avoid them.

A.P. Chekhov

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

N.A.Dobrolyubov

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

A.I. Herzen

Among the magnificent qualities of our language there is one that is absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable. It lies in the fact that its sound is so diverse that it contains the sound of almost all the languages ​​of the world.

K.G. Paustovsky

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

MM. Prishvin

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

K.G. Paustovsky

To handle the language somehow means to think somehow: approximately, imprecisely, incorrectly.

A.N. Tolstoy

But what disgusting bureaucratic language! Based on that situation... on the one hand... on the other hand - and all this without any need. “Nevertheless” and “to the extent that” the officials composed. I read and spit.

A.P. Chekhov

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

M.A. Sholokhov

The Russian language is quite rich, however, it has its shortcomings, and one of them is hissing sound combinations: -vsha, -vshi, -vshu, -shcha, -shchi. On the first page of your story, “lice” crawls in large numbers: those who worked, those who spoke, those who arrived. It is quite possible to do without insects.

Maksim Gorky

You can do wonders with the Russian language!

Russian is an international language and is among the top five in terms of the number of people speaking it. It is the state language in Russia, interethnic in the countries of the former USSR, and official in the UN. Uniqueness, information content, abundance of stylistic, linguistic, expressive means and possibilities - these are a small part of the advantages that the Russian language has inherited over the centuries of its existence. The statements of great writers, Slavic culture and the special place of our language in it (it belongs to the eastern branch) emphasize that over time its role only intensifies.

However, it is not enough to master only its colloquial form. A truly literate person is one who has mastered the laws and features of the literary language in which the best writers and

What we have, we don’t store...

But, unfortunately, at the present stage the state of the Russian language (both spoken and literary) is causing more and more controversy and receives an ambiguous assessment. Some believe that everyday speech should fully reflect the realities of life, and therefore allow the use of a large number of borrowings (they have always existed, but there was a limit), youth slang and jargon, abusive and even obscene language. Others, as a rule, people with a philological education, are concerned that the centuries-old pride of the people (remember the numerous statements of outstanding writers about the Russian language) may cease to be so in the future. And this is quite understandable. Very often, from a TV screen or from a high political podium (it is assumed that educated people are there), we hear speech with a huge number of grammatical and spelling errors, noticeable even to an ordinary schoolchild. But quite recently, the profession of an announcer or speaker required special training, and the speech itself was a standard for every resident of a huge country.

What are the reasons for the emergence and such rapid development in the Russian language of phenomena that negatively affect its state?

Speaking correctly is not fashionable

As sad as it sounds, it is true. Listeners are sometimes more attracted to an interlocutor’s ability to flaunt a beautiful word, especially a foreign one. And it doesn’t matter whether it is used appropriately (here it is worth citing the words of V. Belinsky, who wrote that the use of a foreign word instead of an existing Russian one can be perceived as an insult to “common sense and ... taste”) and whether its meaning is distorted. The ability to stand out from the crowd is often valued in society, even if this demonstrates complete ignorance or ignorance of accepted norms of etiquette. In this regard, I recall more than one statement about the Russian language by Russian writers. For example, that to handle language somehow means to think also somehow (A. Tolstoy). A. Chekhov, reflecting on the qualities of an intelligent person, noted that for him speaking poorly “should be considered as indecent as not being able to read and write.” It would be good for our politicians, cultural figures, television and radio workers preparing for various kinds of public appearances to know and remember this.

Economy of words is a sign of fast-flowing time

Another negative phenomenon leading to the impoverishment of the Russian language is the active use of mobile phones and the Internet in everyday life. With all their merits, it should be noted that modern people have practically stopped writing and reading. In conditions of constant rush, short SMS have become the main means of communication not only among teenagers and young people, but also among those who are older. And the traditional letters that have existed for centuries are completely a thing of the past - they were replaced by electronic messages, usually consisting of several short phrases, hastily formatted. On the one hand, of course, it’s good that the modern generation is learning to concisely express their thoughts and react flexibly to what is happening. After all, N. Nekrasov also called for speaking in such a way “so that words are cramped and thoughts are spacious.” But such short statements about the Russian language and the advantages of laconic speech are often taken literally. As a result, brevity becomes a manifestation of limited thinking, insufficient vocabulary, and not at all a sharp mind.

The great power of the artistic word

The real trouble of the current generation, as noted above, is that it has practically stopped reading. Classic works, which a couple of decades ago were re-read avidly and several times, today are for many schoolchildren - and not only! - turned into backbreaking work. What a pleasure there is in the magnificent poems of Pushkin, Lermontov, Blok, Yesenin, Tsvetaeva... Or sincere empathy for the heroes of Gogol, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Bunin, Chekhov, Bulgakov... Today I overcame their summary - already a success. Meanwhile, quotes and statements about Russian literature confirm a thought that has long been familiar to everyone: reading good works of art helps you learn to speak beautifully and correctly, to express your thoughts laconically and accurately. For example, M. Lomonosov at one time considered books to be the source of “beauty, greatness, strength and richness of the Russian language.” R. Descartes called reading good books “a conversation from the most past times...”. And only those who are fully able to enjoy the language will discover the true meaning of K. Paustovsky’s phrase: “Many Russian words radiate poetry...”.

Pop music and the yellow press rule

What do the youth, who tomorrow will represent and govern our state, get in return for classical literature? Mostly short but catchy “musi-pusi” and “flat your eyelashes” in meaningless pop songs with rhythmic music. Or the endless washing of bones and primitive plots in low-quality publications: the yellow press, tabloid detective stories and love novels. And who here will remember the statements of great writers about the Russian language, in which it is called “a flexible, lush, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent poetic tool” (A. Tolstoy), helping in life, or “the most precious thing” in which “everything is grainy” , large, like the pearl itself” (N. Gogol).

Love for a country begins with love for a language

Such reasoning leads to another important idea. Every person should always remember one thing: without a good knowledge of their native language it is impossible to become a patriot, which is confirmed by short statements about the Russian language. The national language is “the history of the people, the path of civilization and culture” (A. Kuprin), “the confession of the people, their soul and way of life...” That is why very often, along with documentary sources, for a full understanding of the processes occurring during the development of the country, one gets acquainted with folklore works (especially proverbs, sayings, songs, epics), masterpieces of classical literature, academic dictionaries.

To summarize, I would like to draw attention to the famous words of N. Karamzin that one cannot call oneself a patriot without love for one’s native language.

Place in the world

The indifference of many people to their own speech is especially offensive against the backdrop of recognition of the merits of our grammar by foreigners. For example, the best statements about the Russian language by foreign figures emphasize its superiority over other known languages. P. Merimee called it the richest among all the “European dialects,” the “language of poetry,” and F. Engels called it “beautiful,” “the strongest and richest living language.” A statement about the Russian language of Russian writers would also be appropriate here. The worldwide recognition and superiority of Russian grammar was noted by the poets M. Lomonosov and M. Derzhavin. According to F. Dostoevsky, only by fully mastering your native language can you learn a foreign language. The point of view of L. Tolstoy, who spoke excellent French, is also remarkable. He admitted that the latter is only good for “showing off”, but a heart-to-heart conversation can only be done in Russian.

“The Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world...”

This is what V. Belinsky wrote more than a century and a half ago. By carefully reading the statements of great writers about the Russian language, you can little by little comprehend the laws of ideal speech, which, as already noted, has become a rarity these days. “There are no such sounds, colors, images and thoughts for which there would not be an exact expression,” noted K. Paustovsky. And Chekhov, trying to protect his contemporaries and descendants from excessive sophistication in words, warned: “The language should be simple and elegant.” Then, in skillful hands, he, as A. Kuprin believed, will become “beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious,” and, according to K. Paustovsky, it will be possible to “work miracles” with him.

Every statement of Russian poets about the Russian language is filled with love and respect.

"Great, mighty, truthful and free..."

Such epithets were awarded to the native language of I. S. Turgenev, the author of a prose poem known, perhaps, to every resident of the country. The writer sees in him “support and support”, which he needs far from his homeland. The work is imbued with inexhaustible love for the main treasure of the people, which helps to objectively assess what is happening in the country. Ivan Sergeevich experiences similar feelings towards the Russian people - the bearer of the great language. These two concepts are inseparable from each other in the writer’s mind, as evidenced by short statements about the Russian language: “one cannot believe that such a language was not given to a great people.”

"Native language"

The sublime and somewhat tragic poem of the symbolist V. Bryusov is full of contradictions. The poet is frank in his confessions that language is for him the embodiment of the best achievements of the Russian people. He gives the initiate wings, saves him in “hours of powerlessness,” plunging him into the mystery of strange sounds. At the same time, for the poet, the Russian language is not only a “faithful friend”, but also a “treacherous enemy”, a “tsar” who has wrapped himself in shackles and will not let go. Therefore, Bryusov rightfully demands for himself all his wealth by inheritance. A similar statement about the Russian language by Russian writers and poets proves their special purpose on earth: to preserve the great word given to the people and pass it on to their descendants. “Your world is forever my abode,” V. Bryusov draws a line under his thoughts, defining the place of the Russian language in his life.

Works by K. Balmont

The river and steppe expanse, filled with the cry of an eagle and the roar of a wolf, the ringing of a pilgrimage and the cooing of a dove, the murmuring of a spring and a spring ray, is what he sees as the Russian language in the poem of the same name. The master’s word helps the poet describe the unique beauty of his native country, express his love for his father’s home and Russia, which he was forced to leave forever.

The words given in this article about the Russian language echo the words from another work by K. Balmont - “The Russian Language: Will as the Basis of Creativity.” In it, the poet calls his native speech “true, primordial, pure, most excellent,” constituting “one of the main talismans” of great Russia. You just need to touch the Russian language, and it will give you a magnificent picture, familiar to everyone from childhood. And already the famous lines of I. Turgenev, who also yearned in a foreign land, sound like a prayer for Balmont.

"Courage"

Another great poem belongs to A. Akhmatova, it was written in 1941 in besieged Leningrad. Anna Andreevna speaks in the most difficult time for the country on behalf of the entire generation, who stood up to defend their native country and the main national heritage: “... we will preserve you, Russian speech...”. This is her primary task as a poet and citizen, capable of inspiring and supporting her compatriots with the “great Russian word.” And the last lines of the poem sound like an oath: “We will carry you free and pure... and we will save you from captivity forever.”

Indeed, such statements by Russian writers about the Russian language, beautiful poems about its power and strength more than once supported the people in the most difficult time for them and for the country.

Summing up

Undoubtedly, the Russian literary language constitutes the golden fund of our country. And works of art written on it are included in the treasury of world literature. And so that every statement about the Russian language by Russian writers, poets, and other cultural figures, decades and centuries later, is imbued with the same pride that they are its speakers, faith in its power, we must preserve what has been handed down to us as an inheritance.

What Russian language- one of the richest languages ​​in the world, there is no doubt about it. - V. Belinsky

Use a foreign word when there is an equivalent one Russian word, means to insult both common sense and common taste. - V. Belinsky

There is no doubt that the desire to dazzle Russian speech using foreign words unnecessarily, without sufficient reason, is contrary to common sense and common taste; but it does not harm the Russian language or Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it. - V. Belinsky

Only by mastering the original material as perfectly as possible, that is, native language, we will be able to master a foreign language as perfectly as possible, but not before. - F. Dostoevsky

Russian language we spoil. We use foreign words unnecessarily. We use them incorrectly. Why say “defects” when you can say shortcomings, or deficiencies, or gaps?.. Isn’t it time for us to declare war on the use of foreign words unnecessarily? - Lenin (“On the purification of the Russian language”)

I do not consider foreign words good and suitable unless they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russified ones. We must take care of our rich and beautiful language from damage. - N. Leskov

Russian language- a language created for poetry, it is unusually rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades. - P. Merimee

True love for one's country is unthinkable without love for your language. - K. Paustovsky

Towards every person to your tongue one can accurately judge not only its cultural level, but also its civic value. - K. Paustovsky

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

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

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

A person's morality is visible in his attitude towards word. - L. N. Tolstoy (1828–1910) – writer and educator

Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed; but no one who is afraid of deep water will be able to come there. - V. M. Illich-Svitych (1934–1966) – Soviet comparative linguist, employee of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences

Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture. That's why studying and saving Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing to do, but an urgent necessity. - A.I. Kuprin (1870–1938) – writer

The greatest wealth of a people is its language! For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word. - M. A. Sholokhov (1905–1984) – writer and public figure

Russian language It 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. - K. G. Paustovsky

Language of the people- the best, never fading and ever-blooming flower of his entire spiritual life. - K. D. Ushinsky (1824–1871) - teacher

Russian language should become a world language. The time will come (and it is not far off) when the Russian language will begin to be studied along all meridians of the globe. - A. N. Tolstoy (1882–1945) – writer and public figure

Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language– this is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect; in skillful hands it is able to perform miracles! - I. S. Turgenev (1818–1883) – poet, writer, translator

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

New words of foreign origin are introduced into Russian seal incessantly and often completely unnecessarily, and - what is most offensive of all - these harmful exercises are practiced in the very bodies where the Russian nationality and its characteristics are most passionately advocated. - N. S. Leskov (1831–1895) – writer.

The perception of other people's words, and especially without necessity, is not enrichment, but tongue damage! - A. P. Sumarokov (1717–1777) - writer, poet, playwright

Native language we must be the main basis of both our general education and the education of each of us. - P. A. Vyazemsky (1792–1878) - poet and literary critic

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

• The language that the Russian state commands over a great part of the world, due to its power, has natural abundance, beauty and strength, which is not inferior to any European language. And there is no doubt that the Russian word could not be brought to such perfection as we are surprised at in others. Lomonosov M. V.
• ...The language of Turgenev, Tolstoy, Dobrolyubov, Chernyshevsky is great and powerful... And we, of course, stand for every resident of Russia to have the opportunity to learn the great Russian language. Lenin V.I.

• The language of a people is the best, never fading and ever-blooming flower of their entire spiritual life. K.D. Ushinsky
• Take care of our language, our beautiful Russian language - this is a treasure, this is an asset passed on to us by our predecessors! Handle this powerful tool with respect. Turgenev I. S.
• Language is the history of a people. Language is the path of civilization and culture... Therefore, studying and preserving the Russian language is not an idle activity because there is nothing better to do, but an urgent necessity. Kuprin A. I.
• Thanks to the Russian language, we, representatives of multilingual literatures, know each other well. Mutual enrichment of literary experience occurs through the Russian language, through the Russian book. Publishing a book by any writer in our country in Russian means reaching the widest possible readership. Rytkheu Yu. S.
• I do not consider foreign words good and suitable unless they can be replaced by purely Russian or more Russified ones. We must protect our rich and beautiful language from damage. Leskov N. S.
• Throughout the 18th century, New Russian literature developed the rich scientific language that we now possess; the language is flexible and powerful, capable of expressing 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 an equivalent Russian word 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 accumulate 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 thoughts of European languages.
• 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! It is impossible to believe that such a language was not given to a great people! Turgenev I. S.
• Verbosity - 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, internal lyrical feelings, “the scurrying of life,” a cry of indignation, sparkling prank 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 subtlest shades. Gifted with wonderful conciseness, combined with clarity, he is content with one word to convey thoughts when another language would require whole phrases for this. Merimee P.
• Even if you don’t know whether, according to the rules of the Russian language, a comma is needed here 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 one Russian language, will means both the power of overcoming and a symbol of the absence of barriers. Grigory Landau
• The Russian language is inexhaustibly rich and everything is being enriched with amazing speed. Gorky M.
• If the Russian language is so difficult for its native speakers, then how difficult it must be for foreigners!
• We are spoiling the Russian language. We use foreign words unnecessarily. We use them incorrectly. Why say “defects” when you can say shortcomings, or shortcomings, or gaps?... Isn’t it time for us to declare war on the use of foreign words unnecessarily? — 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 must become a world language. The time will come (and it is not far off) when the Russian language will begin to be studied along all 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 millennia, the people created this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent, poetic and laboring instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future. Tolstoy L.N.
• As a material for 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.
• Anyone who has memorized the English-Russian dictionary knows the English-Russian language.
• Our native language should be the main basis of our general education and the education of each of us. Vyazemsky P. A.
• We must love and preserve those examples of the Russian language that we inherited from first-class masters. Furmanov D. A.
• By the attitude of each person to his language, one can 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 times with your heart, in close communication with the common man and with a volume of Pushkin in your pocket, you can become an excellent writer. 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 completely unnecessarily, and - what is most offensive - these harmful exercises are practiced in those very same people. bodies where Russian nationality and its characteristics are most passionately advocated. Leskov N. S.
• There are no sounds, colors, images and thoughts - complex and simple - for which there would not be an exact expression in our language. Dostoevsky F. M.
• Nothing is so ordinary for us, nothing seems so simple as our speech, but in our very being there is nothing as surprising, as wonderful as our speech. Radishchev A. N.

• There is no doubt that the desire to replete Russian speech with foreign words unnecessarily, without sufficient reason, is contrary to common sense and common taste; but it does not harm the Russian language or Russian literature, but only those who are obsessed with it. Belinsky V. G.
• A person’s morality 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 arrangement, and 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 ruler of many languages, the Russian language is not only in the vastness of the places where it dominates, but also in its own space and contentment, it is great in comparison with everyone in Europe. Lomonosov M. V.
• Only having mastered the initial material, that is, our native language, to the possible perfection, will we be able to master a foreign language to the possible perfection, but not before. Fedor Dostoevsky.
• The Russian literary language is closer than all other European languages ​​to colloquial folk speech. Tolstoy A. N.
• The beauty, greatness, strength and richness of the Russian language is abundantly clear from books written in past centuries, when our ancestors not only did not know any rules for writing, but they hardly even thought that they existed or could exist. Lomonosov M. V.
• The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades. Merimee P.
• How beautiful the Russian language is! All the advantages of German without its terrible rudeness. Engels F.
• The Russian language in skillful hands and experienced lips is beautiful, melodious, expressive, flexible, obedient, dexterous and capacious. Kuprin A.I.
• It seems that not only in the Russian language the words priest and popularity have the same root? Alexander Krasny
• The Russian language is quite rich; it has all the means to express the most subtle feelings and shades of thought. Korolenko V. G.
• Knowledge of the Russian language, a language that deserves to be studied in every possible way, both in itself, because it is one of the strongest and richest living languages, and for the sake of the literature it reveals, is no longer such a rarity... Engels F.
• The Russian language is so rich in verbs and nouns, so diverse in forms expressing internal gesture, movement, shades of feelings and thoughts, colors, smells, the material of things, etc., that when building a scientific linguistic culture, it is necessary to understand this brilliant inheritance of “peasant strength”. Tolstoy A. N.
• If you think and speak with words - Word Science, and if with habits - the Russian language! Valery I. M.
• The Russian language is fully revealed in its truly magical properties and wealth only to those who deeply love and know their people “to the bone” and feel the hidden charm of our land. Paustovsky K. G.
• You marvel at the preciousness of our language: every sound is a gift: everything is grainy, large, like the pearl itself, and, truly, another name is even more precious than the thing itself. Gogol N.V.
• Russian language! For millennia, the people created this flexible, magnificent, inexhaustibly rich, intelligent, poetic and laboring instrument of their social life, their thoughts, their feelings, their hopes, their anger, their great future. Tolstoy L. N.
• May there be honor and glory to our language, which in its native richness, almost without any foreign admixture, flows like a proud, majestic river - it makes noise, thunders - and suddenly, if necessary, softens, gurgles like a gentle brook and sweetly flows into 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 aestheticians themselves, is not inferior either to Latin or to Greek in fluency, surpassing all European languages: Italian, French and Spanish, and even more so German. Derzhavin G. R.
• The perception of other people's words, especially without necessity, is not enrichment, but damage to the language. Sumarokov A. P.
• Among the magnificent qualities of our language there is one that is absolutely amazing and hardly noticeable. It lies in the fact that its sound is so diverse that it contains the sound of almost all the languages ​​of the world. Paustovsky K. G.
• An appearance that excludes ignorance of the Russian language. Valery Afonchenko
• Surprisingly: in the Sanskrit language the words and are denoted by one word:. In the Russian language, in my opinion, there are also many words that could easily merge into one. Well, let's say: and... Pavlenko V. Yu.
• The Russian language is great, for the one who cripples it is a bastard! Johnsen Koikolainer
• That the Russian language is one of the richest languages ​​in the world, there is no doubt about it. Belinsky V. G.
• Rich Russian language: how much can be expressed in one word! And how much can you not tell them!
• Language is a ford across the river of time, it leads us to the home of the departed; but no one who is afraid of deep water will be able to come there. Illich-Svitych V. M.
• Take care of the purity of your 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 increasingly penetrating the modern Russian language in order to completely disfigure it. Boris Krieger
• Our language is expressive not only for high eloquence, for loud, picturesque poetry, but also for tender simplicity, for the sounds of the heart and sensitivity. It is richer in harmony than French; more capable of pouring out the soul in tones; represents more analogous words, that is, consistent with the action being expressed: a benefit that only indigenous languages ​​have. Karamzin N. M.
• ... There is no word that would be so sweeping, smart, would burst out from under the very heart, would seethe and vibrate so much, like an aptly spoken Russian word. Gogol N.V.

The collection includes famous quotes about the Russian language by great people of our time and past years.

The greatest wealth of a people is its language!

For thousands of years, countless treasures of human thought and experience accumulate and live forever in the word.

M. A. Sholokhov.

The word is the deed.

L. N. Tolstoy.

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

M. Gorky.

Language is the clothing of thoughts.

S. Johnson.

May there be honor and glory to our language.

N. M. Karamzin.

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

A. S. Pushkin.

The Russian people are the first people in the world in terms of their glory and power, in terms of their sonorous, rich, powerful language, which has no analogue in Europe!

V. K. Kuchelbecker.

Every nation has distinguished itself in its own way, each with its own word, with which, expressing whatever object it is, it reflects in its expression a part of its own character.

The word of a Briton will echo with heart knowledge and wise knowledge of life;

The short-lived word of a Frenchman will flash and spread like a light dandy; the German will intricately come up with his own, not accessible to everyone, clever and thin word;

but there is no word that would be so sweeping, brisk, that would burst out from under the very heart,

it would boil and vibrate like a well-spoken Russian word.

N.V. Gogol.

You can do wonders with the Russian language.

There is nothing in life and in our consciousness that cannot be conveyed in Russian words.

The sound of music, the spectral brilliance of colors, the play of light, the noise and shadow of gardens, the vagueness of sleep, the heavy rumble of a thunderstorm, the whisper of children and the rustle of sea gravel.

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

K. G. Paustovsky.

Native speech is the basis of the Fatherland. Do not muddy the Divine spring, Protect yourself: the soul gives birth to the word - our Great Holy Russian language.

Hieromonk Roman.

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

F. Nietzsche.

We must protect our language from contamination, remembering that the words we use now, with the transfer of a certain number of new ones, will serve many centuries after you to express ideas and thoughts still unknown to us, to create new poetic creations that are beyond our prediction. And we should be deeply grateful to previous generations who brought to us this heritage - a figurative, capacious, intelligent language. It itself already contains all the elements of art: harmonious syntactic architecture, and the music of words, verbal painting.

A. Herzen.

Speech must comply with the laws of logic.

Aristotle.

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

P. A. Vyazemsky.

A beautiful thought loses all its value if it is poorly expressed.

Voltaire.

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

G. Derzhavin.

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

Lenin.

What is language? First of all, this 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 is also, as it were, permeated by this method of expression.

A. N. Tolstoy.

The immortality of a people is in its language.

Ch. Aitmatov.

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 skillful hands it is capable of performing miracles.

I. S. Turgenev.

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

I. S. Turgenev.

New words of foreign origin are introduced into the Russian press incessantly and often completely unnecessarily, and - what is most offensive - these harmful exercises are practiced in the very organs where the Russian nationality and its characteristics are most ardently advocated.

N. S. Leskov.

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

V. G. Belinsky.

The perception of other people's words, especially without necessity, is not enrichment, but damage to the language.

A. P. Sumarokov.

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

P. A. Vyazemsky.

The Russian language is a language created for poetry; it is extremely rich and remarkable mainly for the subtlety of its shades.

P. Merimee.

The Slavic-Russian language, according to the testimony of foreign aestheticians themselves, is not inferior either to Latin or to Greek in fluency, surpassing all European languages: Italian, French and Spanish, and even more so German.

G. Derzhavin.

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

A. Kuprin.

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

V. Belinsky.

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

N. Gogol.

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

F. Engels.

There is no word that would be so sweeping, lively, would burst out from under the very heart, would seethe and vibrate so much as a well-spoken Russian word.

N. Gogol.

The more national we are, the more we will be Europeans (all people).

F. Dostoevsky.

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

F. Dostoevsky.

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

K. Paustovsky.

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

I. Turgenev.

The language is inexhaustible in combining words.

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