Letters Quotes

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. (George Bernard Shaw)
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived. View quote
Knut Hamsun
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. View quote
John Updike
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. View quote
Ezra Pound
The letters from jail are always disconcerting. View quote
Eliza Dushku
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters. View quote
Vanna White
When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams. View quote
Anton Chekhov
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. View quote
Walt Whitman
More than kisses, letters mingle souls. (John Donne)
I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people. View quote
David Fincher
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. View quote
A. A. Milne
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time. View quote
E. B. White
This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them. View quote
William Faulkner
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. View quote
C. S. Lewis
She read and read and read, but she was stuffing herself with the letters on the page like an unhappy child stuffing itself with chocolate. They didn't taste bad, but she was still unhappy. View quote
Cornelia Funke
Weren't all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other! View quote
Cornelia Funke
I looked into Mr. Putin's eyes, and I saw three letters, a "K," a "G," and a "B." (John McCain)
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow. View quote
Jean Chrétien
My algebra was relatively poor. I found it very difficult to use equations that substituted numbers - to which I had a synesthetic and emotional response - for letters, to which I had none. It was because of this that I decided not to continue math at Advanced level, but chose to study history, French and German instead. View quote
Daniel Tammet
At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship. View quote
Lucy Lawless