Quotes of: Dictionary Keyword

What is tolerance? It is a necessary consequence of humanity. We are all fallible, let us then pardon each other's follies. This is the first principle of natural right.

Philosophical Dictionary

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

NIHILIST, n. A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.

Paul Johnson

Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.

Shaquille O'Neal

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

Les Dawson

I don't think that ambition should not be in the dictionary of entrepreneurs. But our ambition should be realistic. You have to realise that you can't do everything.

Mukesh Ambani

Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.

Erin McKean

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

Rashida Jones

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Erin McKean

I speak from the heart. Certain people follow lyricists and people that put words on a dictionary together, and this and that. I'm more of a rapper that speaks how I feel. I just tell it how it is.

French Montana

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.

Charles de Lint

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Henry Rollins

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

David Lodge

[to Joe Wershba] Don Surine: Did you know the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary, Joe?

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Peter Gibbons: I can't believe what a bunch of nerds we are. We're looking up "money laundering" in a dictionary.

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