Dictionaries Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Dictionary: a malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic

— Ambrose Bierce

LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can…

— Ambrose Bierce

I'm a massive fan of the dictionary.

— Gemma Collins

“When a child says, “Mr. Roberson, how do you spell this word? What does that word mean?” I’ll look tortured. “Oh,” I’ll exclaim, hand…

— Doug Robertson

“I believe we can change the world one letter at a time. Literacy isn't a noun, it's a verb meant to be a call…

— Kelly Tully

“The dictionary’s very flaws made the exertions and enthusiasm of its compilers real to his imagination. The vast array of words—entry words, definitions, examples—was…

— Shion Miura

“use words that fit the context, to learn when to use high-flown language and when to use down-home words, and generally quit putting on…

— Kory Stamper

“It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use of…

— Italo Calvino

“The act of reading is a skill that can be cultivated.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can…

— Ambrose Bierce

We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the…

— Chinua Achebe

“Literacy is in our veins like blood. It enters every other phrase. It is next to impossible to hold a real conversation, as against…

— Ruth Rendell