Dictionary Quote by milan kundera

“Dictionary of Misunderstood Words”

— Milan Kundera

“The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.”

— Augusto Roa Bastos

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

— Andy Rooney

To make dictionaries is dull work.

— Samuel Johnson

“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

“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

“A dictionary is a ship that crosses the sea of words,” said Araki, with a sense that he was laying bare his innermost soul.…

— Shion Miura

I'm a massive fan of the dictionary.

— Gemma Collins

“I had the dictionary at my elbow. Every now and then I would flip a page, find a large incomprehensible word and build a…

— Charles Bukowski

“My definition of dictionary can’t be found in the dictionary. Dictionary—A linguistic prison, confining words to well-defined cells, with little chance of parole.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Samuel Johnson