Dictionaries Quotes

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, dominated by definitions and trained upon dictionaries.

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, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.