Dictionary Quote by David Levithan

A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

— Samuel Johnson

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.

— M F K Fisher

“Dictionary of Misunderstood Words”

— Milan Kundera

Most people, if they think at all about the dictionary, think of it as this fixed object given to us from on high. It…

— Kory Stamper

Why are people still using a dictionary? I just type the words into Google and see if it corrects me.

— Anonymous

“If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?”

— Steven Wright

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.

— Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

— Samuel Johnson

My guilty pleasure at the end of the day is an old thesaurus. I know that can lead to overwriting, but if words such…

— Bettany Hughes

To make dictionaries is dull work.

— Samuel Johnson

Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in…

— James Gleick

“Most lexicographers had no clue that such a career path existed until they were smack in the middle of it. Neil Serven, an editor…

— kory stamper