At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
To make dictionaries is dull work.
[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.
Cats connote sexuality in standard dream dictionaries.
Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.
My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries
What I liked about Greece was [. . . ] the impressive force of the language itself, unconfined by dictionaries, spoken in the streets, in cafés and in the country.
A lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.
Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness. It means profusion of religions.
Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those goodbad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads.
Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.
Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they do words.
