Letter Quotes
942 Letter quotes by 752 unique authors
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If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.
— Muriel Siebert
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We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.
— Hillary Clinton
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He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.
— Unknown Author
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Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and…
— Ajahn Chah
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We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with.…
— William Butler Yeats
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In a letter to a friend the thought is often unimportant, and the feeling, if it be only a desire to entertain him, every thing.
— Walter Raleigh
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What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I…
— Jonathan Swift
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The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me to the railway…
— Linda McQuaig
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You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.
— Judith Martin
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Love is the most powerful four letter word.
— John Wooden
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Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label…
— Steve Albini
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You go out and obtain from your political allies and friends in the academic world to sign a letter saying that the offenses as alleged…
— Charles Ruff
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree…
— George Eliot
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This morning arrives a letter from my ancient silver-mining comrade, Calvin H. Higbie, a man whom I have not seen nor had communication with for…
— Mark Twain
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ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape as "One day a wag - what would…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign…
— Thomas Sowell
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Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the…
— Pope Benedict XIV
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I sincerely regret the unfortunate choice of language, which I used in my letter of Aug 29 to Congress McDonough concerning the Marine Corps...
— Harry S. Truman
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Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet,…
— Thomas Starr King
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away,…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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I wrote a letter to Harvard, explaining that I was having difficulty deciding between it and the University of Pennsylvania. Could I come and visit?…
— J. Michael Bishop
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I would like to make something that is real in itself that does not remind anyone of any other things, and that does not have…
— Arthur Dove
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I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear…
— Unknown Author
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If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help,
— Edward Tufte
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Journalism's ultimate purpose is to inform the reader, to bring him each day a letter from home and never to permit the serving of special…
— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Who Wrote These Letter Quotes
752 authors contributed a total of 942 Letter Quotes, led by these top contributors: