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literature civility
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none. Charles Dickens
literature potatoes poultry
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.
literature made should
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
literature stealing plagiarism
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
literature prudence
There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
literature fool religious-bigotry
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
literature speech giants
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.
literature action conflict
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
literature
We are so very 'umble.
lexicographer language reporters
Lexicographers are language reporters. Erin McKean
dictionary learned looking love
Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.
dictionary
I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour. Werner Herzog
dictionary print thousands
There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.
dictionary english oxford saw
I saw the Oxford English Dictionary there for the first time. Harold Bloom
dictionary english-musician facts science
Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature. Martin H. Fischer
dictionary breaths
[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 fashion generally gentleman heed makers
GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.Observe with care, my son, the distinction I reveal: A gentleman is gentle and a gent genteel. Heed not the definitions your ""Unabridged"" presents, For dictionary makers are generally gents. --G.J.
dictionary kinda surprise word
That's like a word in the dictionary now. It doesn't surprise me, but it makes me kinda sad. And it makes me a little frightened. Grant Heslov
dictionary picture team word
When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.