Best 108 quotes in «dictionary quotes» category

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

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

The first definition of gross negligence that comes up when you take out the legal dictionary is being extremely careless. The minute you say someone is extremely careless you are saying they're grossly negligent.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

There's a measure of prescriptivism and descriptivism in every dictionary. Prescriptivism believes that the language should mirror the best practices of English, and editors are prescriptivist in so far as they don't want to let things they consider to be inelegant or ungrammatical into print.

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.