Quotes of: Dictionary Keyword

You're like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first

Life

A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children

The Book Thief

If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it.

The Lover's Dictionary

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

LIFE

Are there any more beautiful words in the English dictionary than 'see you tomorrow?

Little Manhattan: The Movie Novel

JEALOUS, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Empty teacups gathered around her and dictionary pages fell at her feet.

The History of Love

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

Erin McKean

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

John Henry Newman

Love is the most important thing in the world. Hate, we should remove from the dictionary.

John Wooden

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

George Chapman

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

Ben Schott

Mistake is a single page in a part of Life .... but Relation is a book of dictionary ----- So don't lose a full Book for a single page.

Life

How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm?

Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island

Remember this! It is never an entire people who is cruel; it is merely individuals who exert their will on others.

The Sleeping Dictionary

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

The Lover's Dictionary

yearning n. and adj. At te core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.

The Lover's Dictionary

I hate to read books but a friend said he read the dictionary and that the Zebra did it.

Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries

Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.

A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary