Dictionary Quotes

340 quotes by 289 authors

At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you… — Kate DiCamillo
Nature is a language and every new fact one learns is a new word; but it is not a language taken to pieces and dead… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what… — Italo Calvino
That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.'… — Cassandra Clare
I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting… — J. R. Moehringer
Â¡LÃ¡stima que el Amor un diccionario no tenga donde hallar cuÃ¡ndo el orgullo es simplemente orgullo y cuÃ¡ndo es dignidad! What a shame that love… — Gustavo Adolfo BÃ©cquer
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship. — Kathleen Norris
A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love, often deciphered by children — Markus Zusak
I finally got around to reading the dictionary. Turns out the Zebra did it. — Steven Wright
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions. — Shashi Tharoor
Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word. — Julio Cortazar
Kids, she says. When theyâ€™re little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, youâ€™re the world almanac and the encyclopedia… — Chuck Palahniuk
In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know. — Daniel Handler
In the dictionary, next to the word stress, there is a picture of a midsize mutant stuck inside a dog crate, wondering if her destiny… — James Patterson
Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.… — Charles Dickens
We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth… — Mervyn Peake
Please be SILENT and LISTEN. I am the SCHOOLMASTER and you are in the CLASSROOM. Just like ELEVEN PLUS TWO equals TWELVE PLUS ONE, And… — Pseudonymous Bosch
Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said. Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?" "I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate… — Cassandra Clare
Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value… — Karen Marie Moning
The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life. — Sarah Dessen

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