Letter Quotes
942 Letter quotes by 752 unique authors
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In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.
— Anatole Broyard
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It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken…
— Joseph Addison
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"Do you love me?"; "Are you my friend?". The One who scrutinizes hearts (cf. Rom 8:27), makes himself a beggar of love and questions us…
— Pope Francis
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Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a…
— Pico Iyer
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Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
— Johann Georg Hamann
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I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course,…
— Ian Mckellen
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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…
— Michelle Malkin
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The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter...
— Mark Twain
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When something feels really big, too big to handle, just go very small. Just go real small, just look at the person next to you…
— Amy Poehler
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History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if…
— Howard Zinn
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I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He…
— David Walliams
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I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain…
— Mitch Hedberg
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Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose.…
— Kieron Gillen
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I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school…
— Nina Bawden
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I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.
— Joshua
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It is the custom of the Roman Church which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind…
— Pope Gregory VII
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I'm talking to you and it's basically a direct communication, whereas if I'm writing a letter to you and you read the letter, there are…
— Kevin J. Anderson
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In 1795, I sent him another letter, telling him, that danger still stood before us, and that the truth of what I had written in…
— Joanna Southcott
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...An editorial of the Journal AMA, Jan 8, 1949, discussed the Gerson Therapy under the heading 'Frauds and Fables'. At that time, Dr. Gerson's lawyer…
— Charlotte Gerson
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In 1938, I. G. Farben sent a letter to (a major drug firm), one of its American subsidiaries, (that)..all advertising contracts must contain '...a legal…
— G. Edward Griffin
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What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in…
— Robert Atkins
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My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured,…
— Joanna Southcott
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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word,…
— Abraham Pais
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Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a…
— Bob Uecker
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She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I…
— Elizabeth Montagu
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