Quotes of: Dictionaries Keyword

Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.

Through Her Eyes

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Philosophical Dictionary

It is proved...that things cannot be other than they are, for since everything was made for a purpose, it follows that everything is made for the best purpose.

Philosophical Dictionary

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Max Beerbohm

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. - Mark Twain

Mark Twain

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.

Mark Twain

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

Everett Dirksen

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

Dave Barry

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

Dave Barry

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

David Crystal

You cannot find meaning in life because it is not a dictionary, but life is a story book instead.

Life

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

Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith

, adj. and adv. Will it ever get better? It better. Will it ever get better? It better. Will it ever get better? It better.

The Lover's Dictionary

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.

Philosophical Dictionary

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

, n. - A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

I'll always take Scrabble and chess if I'm going filming. But I do have the Scrabble dictionary, which can be infuriating for other players.

Saffron Burrows

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

Erin McKean

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning