Barbed wire Quote by Sylvia Plath

The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that…

— Edward Gibbon

I'm a massive fan of the dictionary.

— Gemma Collins

Boy, those Germans have a word for everything!

— Homer

My mind is like a book. closed to people and full of words that dont want to be read.

— Kezz Marrow

My mother was German, and I was brought up with 'Struwwelpeter' stories, which are invested with all sorts of horrors waiting for you if…

— Cornelia Parker

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have…

— Jerome K. Jerome

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run…

— Mark Twain

When I was growing up, I worried that people would dismiss me as a boring swot because I always had my nose in a…

— Susie Dent

The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.

— Mary Norris

I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant.

— Susie Dent

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,…

— Drew Barrymore

FYI: when you see a grammar nazi foaming at the mouth, you are watching someone with absolutely nothing of substance to say.

— Nils Parker