Dictionary Quotes

340 quotes by 289 authors

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
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are… — Drew Barrymore
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. — Max Beerbohm
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The word impossible is not in my dictionary. — Napoleon Bonaparte
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. — George Chapman
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. — Jean Cocteau
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the doggie dictionary, under "bow wow" it says, "See "arf arf."" — George Carlin
For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary. — Remy de Gourmont
If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan. — Elgin Baylor
Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these… — Vernon Howard
Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you look up feminist in the dictionary, it just means someone who believes men and women have equal rights... — Aziz Ansari
Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart. — Mignon McLaughlin
Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science. — Laurence Sterne
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy . . . Is… — Daniel J. Boorstin
Gratitude is a fool's word; we find it in the dictionary, but it is not in the heart of man. — Honore de Balzac

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