Letters Quotes

1592 Letters quotes by 1184 unique authors

It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from… — John Updike
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and… — Mark Twain
Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not… — Fran Lebowitz
We all begin life as parasites within the mother, and writers begin their existence imitatively, within the body of letters. — John Updike
A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting… — Russell Baker
Do I rue a life wasted doing crosswords? Yes, but I do know the three-letter-word for regret. — Robert Breault
Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth,… — John Robbins
The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse. — Seneca the Younger
Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters. — Jules Renard
I still want to write Clint Eastwood a letter saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all us wimp actors. You're the truth.' I guarantee he's… — Channing Tatum
To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for… — Roy Blount, Jr.
Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face? — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps,… — John Cheever
Letters are largely written to get things out of your system. — John Dos Passos
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words. — George Steiner
Never answer an anonymous letter. — Yogi Berra
I've always believed that dreams were both the love letters and the hate mail of the subconscious. — Pat Conroy
A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly. — John Steinbeck
The four-letter word for psychotherapy is Talk. — Eric Hodgins
Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training,… — Susan Sontag
I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for… — William Saroyan
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though… — Elizabeth Drew
One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power… — Edmond de Goncourt
I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each… — Geoffrey Fisher
There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately,… — Tracey Emin

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