Language Quote by Milan Kundera

“dictionary with unsaid words”

— milan kundera

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

— Steven Wright

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“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

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Dictionaries are like vitamins and floss; we buy them and then never use them. Even I, an English teacher, a lover of words, have…

— Jenny Baranick

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

— Samuel Johnson

“The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have.”

— Andy Rooney

I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.

— Zayn Malik

“The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.”

— Augusto Roa Bastos

“Misunderstood! It is a right fool's word. Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche