Dictionary Quotes

The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary.

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'!

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

My lad chewed and swallowed a dictionary. We gave him Epsom salts - but we can't get a word out of him.

Life is our dictionary.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

[God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God is everything.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.

Every time I have to look up a word in the dictionary, I'm delighted.

You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

The only place where compensation comes before service is in the dictionary or anywhere the government meddles.

Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.

In the dictionary under redundant it says see redundant.

Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.

To make dictionaries is dull work.

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.

For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary.

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.

Gratitude is a useless word.
You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

I didn't even know what the word lesbian meant until I was called one... and then I had to look it up in the dictionary.

A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.

This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.

Back in the 19th century, our marketing folks decided to play up the refined usage angle because prescriptivism was very popular: our dictionary is where you go to learn anything about anything. That really set the tone in North America for how people responded to dictionaries.

A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive.

The first definition of gross negligence that comes up when you take out the legal dictionary is being extremely careless. The minute you say someone is extremely careless you are saying they're grossly negligent.

The word gratitude is not part of the Hollywood dictionary.

I think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're not describing what a thing is.