Famous quotes containing the words english and/or dictionary:
“Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?”
—Alan Jay Lerner (1918–1986)
“If someday I make a dictionary of definitions wanting single words to head them, a cherished entry will be “To abridge, expand, or otherwise alter or cause to be altered for the sake of belated improvement, one’s own writings in translation.””
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)