Intelligence Quote by Jane Austen

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my…

— Jane Austen

“I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little writing will not…

— Jane Austen

“We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.”

— Wilkie Collins

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the…

— Anonymous

“This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave everything in…

— Jane Austen

“I have to write, as if I were carrying out a punishment. And the greatest punishment is to know that whatever I write will…

— Fernando Pessoa

“welcome antidote to the speed of modern life. By their very nature, letters allow for more consideration of the words and thoughts that someone…

— Elizabeth Berg

“...genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation…

— Marcel Proust

“Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.”

— Jane Austen

“A sign of strong character, when once the resolution has been taken, to shut the ear even to the best counter-arguments. Occasionally, therefore, a…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty.”

— Herman Melville