Letters Quotes

1592 Letters quotes by 1184 unique authors

I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the potential impact of a total… — Unknown Author
Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter! — William Shakespeare
Sir,-The Planet [Neptune] whose position you marked out actually exists. On the day on which your letter reached me, I found a star of the… — Unknown Author
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular… — Robert Fulton
Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K. — J. P. McEvoy
I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece. — Ron Pearson
It is probably no exaggeration to suppose that in order to improve such an organ as the eye at all, it must be improved in… — Joseph Murray
If a little less time was devoted to the translation of letters by Julius Caesar describing Britain 2000 years ago and a little more time… — Unknown Author
The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. — Svetlana Alliluyeva
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.… — Hokusai
Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know — Jann Arden
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope,… — Phillips Brooks
The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets. — Unknown Author
On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I… — Niccolo Paganini
I feel more a part of the wrestling community than I feel I belong to the community of arts and letters. Why? Because wrestling requires… — John Irving
One night when my longing for her was like a fire burning out of control in my heart and my head, I wrote her a… — Stephen King
You wrote me a beautiful letter, I wonder if you meant it to be as beautiful as it was. I think you did; for somehow… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart.... — Heloise
I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word,… — Michael Kirby
One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel… — Joseph Epstein
One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself.… — James Joyce
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that… — Fran Lebowitz
I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop… — Ruth Rendell

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