Letters Quotes

The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.

I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time was spent in his education, and knows nothing about letters at all.

The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation.

He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey? Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the only calm one?

Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?

Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.

In celebration of Mother's Day yesterday, President Obama called three moms who had written him letters. Then kids who made their mom a macaroni necklace said, 'Thanks, Obama.'

[A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters:] Dear Sir (or Madame): You may be right.

Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.

Ambition is not a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.

If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms.

Add two letters two paris and it's paradise.

I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

God! How men of letters are stupid.

I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.

There were a lot of people who were willing to write a letter for me. Not because I was academically inclined, but because I worked hard.

And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.

"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's Oath.

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

Lou Piniella only argues on days ending with the letter 'y'.

And it's a pity too that I've no right to open your letters. I hope you don't get many, or my conscience will give me no peace.

That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

There's a lot of letters in Ladanian Tomlinson

Literature is not a sack race. There aren't real winners and losers in the Republic of Letters.

When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters.

What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters.

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant.

Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend.

We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime.

Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.

Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.

I got four volumes of the letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He is prominent among the great unread, and treated so oddly by history that I wanted to hear his side of things.

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music