Letter Quotes

A letter does not blush. (Cicero)

Literally: I made this one [letter] longer only because I have not had the leisure to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal

Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.

Faina Ranevskaya

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

Ernest Hemingway

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

Edith Wharton

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Henry Fielding

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

Gustav Klimt

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

D. H. Lawrence

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

John Steinbeck

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. (Mark Twain)

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Jean Cocteau

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes Letter to von Humboldt, 1813.

Thomas Jefferson

Those who marry God can become domesticated too it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

Graham Greene

For in every particular of the Word there is an internal sense which treats of things spiritual and heavenly, not of things natural and worldly, such as are treated of in the sense of the letter.

Emanuel Swedenborg

I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.

Christopher Plummer

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.

Steven Wright

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Alice Walker

I got a letter from the IRS. Apparently I owe them 800. So I sent them a letter back. I said, If you'll remember, I fastened my return with a paper clip, which according to your very own latest government pentagon spending figures will more than make up for the difference.

Emo Philips

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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. (E. B. White)

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Jane Austen

Never answer an anonymous letter.

Yogi Berra

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.

John Steinbeck

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