Dictionaries Quotes

Samuel Johnson

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few.

Samuel Johnson

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

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

Ernest Hemingway

Rating - 3 (1 Votes)

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it ...

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