Alphabet Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“The writing system at the opposite extreme took the longest to emerge: the alphabet, one symbol for one minimal sound. The alphabet is the…

— James Gleick

“Many modern alphabets, including ours, retain with minor modifications that original sequence (and, in the case of Greek, even the letters’ original names: alpha,…

— Jared Diamond

That bad letters of every kind arise from want of the habit of thinking, I cannot doubt.

— Mary Russell Mitford

The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.

— Socrates

We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our language, and…

— Jan Tschichold

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

— Mark Twain

The loss of letters in today's world is one of the great losses we are experiencing, though we shan't know the full extent of…

— David Burnett

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

— Augusto Roa Bastos

Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not…

— Douglas Adams

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T V W X Y…

— Isaac Buabeng

“More and more rules were added until people tried to standardise spelling in the eighteenth century - by which time the language was already…

— Ben Crystal

Letters have the power to stop time. They capture one moment in ink for eternity. I love that. And it means you can never…

— Anonymous