Quotation Explorer - 'Letter'

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading. - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up. - Jane Yolen
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. - Jane Austen
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. - Arthur Schopenhauer
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. - Samuel McChord Crothers
Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page. - Howard Schwartz
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. - Mark Twain
Learning is one letter short of maturity. - Eddie Mhone
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. - Phyllis Theroux
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. - Ludwig van Beethoven
A love letter can be very short or it can be long; it can be literary or non-literary; it can be bright or dark, cheerful or tragic. But above all, for a love letter to be a love letter it must be sincere! - Mehmet Murat ildan
A letter to the beloved is like the ink kissing the paper. (Une lettre à l'aimée, c'est - L'encre embrassant le papier) - Charles de Leusse
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
All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006] Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
My health is only just good enough for myself alone, not good enough for marriage, let alone fatherhood. Yet when I read your letter, I feel I could overlook even what cannot possibly be overlooked. - Franz Kafka
In America, I appear more simple that I am, because I was completely out of my element. It was my misfortune, not my fault, that I was born in a country which was not congenial to my desires. -1815, in a letter to her father William Patterson - Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
Put some fiddle in the middle, it'll make it better. Warm your heart like an old love letter. Make you feel like the day you met her. - Kevin Dalton - Faubush Hill
True greatness is when your name is like , watt, and fourier—when it's spelled with a lower case letter. Richard Hamming - ampere
I wish for all who look for Gold,Shall find one letter less,A world where trying always wins,And leaves the loser blessed. - Frederic M. Perrin
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses. - Colette
To make money you have to use a four letter word: SELL. - Richie Norton
Time' is the most threatening four letter word. - Jennifer Elisabeth
I’m brutally honest. No kidding. Sometimes a little too honest. There’s this word called tact, it’s in the dictionary under the letter T.I don’t believe you, I think you just made that word up. - St. Clair, Georgette
It's entirely possible to base an entire book on a long-forgotten letter. - Sara Sheridan
You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas - Oscar Wilde
The letter that would change everything arrived on a Tuesday. - Rachel Joyce
Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.
Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. - Alexander Hamilton
Someday find my son...tell him about how things can be between men on this Earth."--A Letter to Jesse Owens - Luz Long
I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist. - Albert Einstein
But, deep in her heart she knew more than what the words read or heard seemed to say. She knew that every letter in every word in every war bulletin was, somewhere, first written in blood of men, of human beings, who had once smiled and sung songs, eaten, drunk, slept and loved. - Kate Seredy
Realities disguised as symbols are, for me, new realities that are immeasurably preferable. I make an effort to take them at their word. To grasp, to carry out the diktat of images to the letter. - Claude Cahun
I’m a screwed-up person who no longerknows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter. - Matthew Quick
You yourself are a letter, read and known by all men. - Steven Sutherland
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die. - Douglas Coupland
And on this night, the last of its kind before we get married to each other at the stroke of 8 tomorrow in the evening, as I walk towards my bed to call the day off, the last puff of wind brought from a fairy-tale land urges me to write this letter as your girlfriend, for one last time. - Debalina Haldar
No letter from a lover is ever more welcome, brings more joy, than a publisher's expression of interest does to a new author! - Judith Brocklehurst
Exit is a letter away from Exist.A part, just a space away from Apart. - Noor Iskandar
{In a letter to his friend }I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not. Carl Friedrich Gauß - Rudolf Wagner
Control your anger because it is just ONE Letter away from danger. - Auliq Ice
I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. - Mother Teresa
Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life. - Dorothy Parker
I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter. - Blaise Pascal
To me, making a tape is like writing a letter there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one. - Nick Hornby
This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!- Letter to J. H. Twichell, 1/29/1901 - Mark Twain
NEGRO, n. The _piece de resistance_ in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: "Let n = the white man." This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution. - Ambrose Bierce
She wrote a long letter on a short piece of paper - travel schedule
When I was kidnapped as a child my parents sent a letter to the hijackers me Pay 5,000 dollars or your back - Rodney Dangerfield
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.-- Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy - Mikhail Bakunin
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it. - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Faithfully, Calvi was following the rules to the letter. He knew one thing: Whatever was in that document had caused the death of the leader of the Catholic Church. Who’d be next? - Peter J. Tanous
This Bible of Mine? It is the breath of God spoken into my weary bones. It is the armor I need to walk the roads He has chosen for me, and it's the confirmation of promises that withstand the test of hours and adversity. It's a love letter, and it has my name on it. It has your name on it. - Angie Smith
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. - Mark Twain
Love can be expressed in a myriad of different methods, but the most timeless and most treasured will always remain the classic love letter. - Auliq Ice
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger. - Pico Iyer
You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her.
I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. - Mark Twain
In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your opponents, or threaten suicide bombings. You write a letter to the editor. - Michelle Malkin
Love is the most integral function of our lives. That is why LOVE is only one letter away from LIVE. - Kamand Kojouri
Music describes feelings: A melody is a word. A single notee is a letter. - Melchior van den Boogert
ya better come inside when you're ready tobut no chance if ya don't wanna danceyou like four letter words when you're ready tobut then you won't 'cos you know that you can - Def Leppard
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life. - Dorothy Parker
It is the letter not sent that is often the most valuable. - Melanie Benjamin
Write her a letter, send her a flower, love only gets old if you let it. - William Chapman
This is my letter to the worldThat never wrote to me - Emily Dickinson
The only day you should never write and achieve your goals is when the day ends with the letter y. - Onyi Anyado
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell - Omar Khayyám
Remove the letter 'I'(EGO) and word 'WANT'(DESIRE) from the statement "I WANT HAPPINESS" and you will be remained with 'HAPPINESS - Gauthama Buddha
I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, "I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer. - David Sedaris
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. - Alvin Toffler
I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it. - Mark Twain
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