The Letters Quotes

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Compare sending someone a text message and getting a love letter delivered by carrier pigeon. No contest.

The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo things that girls don't want to talk about, but once we do we realize we're not alone.

The reason they call if 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant forced to settle in Chicago. She was jealous of the freedom life gave me.

Grammar is the grave of letters.

I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.

[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

The letters from jail are always disconcerting.

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.

I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it.

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

Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

Introducing 'Lite': the new way to spell 'Light'; but with twenty per cent fewer letters.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I'd been touched by an angel.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.

Survival is a four letter word.

I get a lot of letters from people.

A wedding is at once a crowded place and a private room, packed with trusts and empty of all but the heart's letters which one other heart may read and decipher.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious.

You'll get much better results by being upfront, answering creditors calls, and responding to their letters. Delaying the inevitable only digs a deeper hole.

When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers.

It wouldn't be my move," Jace agreed. "First the candy and flowers, then the apology letters, then the ravenous demon hordes. In that order.

For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed 'S. Gollum'. That would have been more difficult to deal with.

Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain unless you've used up all the other four-letter words.

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

When I work I have a sculptor's sense of the shape of the words I'm making. I use a machine with larger than average letters: the bigger the better.