dictionary quotes

Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco bound.

-Johnny Burke
  Title song in Road to Morocco, sung byBing Crosby andBob Hope. Music by  Jimmy Van Heusen.

'When you say ''hill'','the Queen interrupted,'I could show you hills, in comparison with which you'd call that a valley.' 'No, I shouldn't,'said Alice, surprised into contradicting her at last: 'a hill can't be a valley, you know. That would be nonsense' The Red Queen shook her head.'You may call it ''nonsense'' if you like,'shesaid,'but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!'

-Dodgson
Through the Looking-Glass, ch.2,'The Garden of Live Flowers'.

His slang†was always a little out of date, as though he had studied in a dictionary of popular usage, but not in the latest edition.

- (Henry) Graham Greene
  The Comedians, pt.1, ch.1.

There's no place where success comes before work, except in the dictionary.

- Donald M Kimball
  In US A  Today, 21  Apr.

He understood†Walt Whitman, who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary, and Herman Melville who split the atom of the traditional novel in the effort to make whaling a universal metaphor.

- David John Lodge
  Changing Places, ch.5.

My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says that your life depends on your power to master words.

- Arthur Scargill
  In the SundayTimes,10 Jan.

   Think of the heroism of Johnson, think of that superb indifference to mortal limitation that set him upon his dictionary, and carried him through triumphantly until the end! Who, if he were wisely considerate of things at large, would ever embark upon any work much more considerable than a halfpenny post-card? Who would project a serial novel, afterThackeray and Dickens had each fallen in mid-course? Who would find heart enough to begin to live, if he dallied with the consideration of death?

- Robert Louis Stevenson
Virginibus Puerisque,'AesTriplex'.

What is the metre of the dictionary?

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  'Altarwise by Owl-light'.

I've been in Who's Who and I know what's what, but it's the first time I ever made the dictionary.

- Mae West
Reputedly said on learning that a life jacket was to be named after her.