Quotes by Dictionary Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it. Alexander Theroux dictionary use book Nonsense, n. The objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary. Ambrose Bierce dictionary nonsense excellent Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order. Anatole France alphabetical-order dictionary order A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order. Anatole France alphabetical-order dictionary order A word in a dictionary is very much like a car in a mammoth motor show - full of potential but temporarily inactive. Anthony Burgess dictionary car shows In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know. Daniel Handler dictionary pockets secret There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. Dave Barry fashion-model dictionary fashion Dictionaries stop where the heart starts. David Foenkinos dictionary heart Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it. Eugene Delacroix dictionary draws For me there is no such word as luck in the dictionary. Fabrice Muamba dictionary luck Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life. Francois de La Rochefoucauld dictionary gratitude useless A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language. Giacomo Leopardi dictionary embrace language Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. Gertrude Stein dictionary rhyming literature The word gratitude is not part of the Hollywood dictionary. Harry Cohn dictionary gratitude hollywood The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary. Ingvar Kamprad dictionary has-beens impossible [God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God is everything. Iyanla Vanzant dictionary breaths Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs. Jack Black dictionary caught justice There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary. Jack Lynch dictionary What's a depression? The dictionary says a depression is a dent. And what's a dent? Everybody knows a dent is a hole. And what's a hole? You tell me what's a hole! And I'll tell you that a hole is nothin'! Jimmy Durante dictionary holes depression Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dictionary conversation men 1234»