Agitation Quote by Jane Austen

“But think no more of the letter. The feelings of the person who wrote, and the person who received it, are now so widely…

— Jane Austen

“ 134. Letters are Commonplace Letters are commonplace enough, yet what splendid things they are! When someone is in a distant province and one…

— Sei Shonagon

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

— Paul Burrell

A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly…

— P. D. James

“my own feelings, which had been quite jubilant on the receipt of his letter, were sad and depressed. I felt like anything rather than…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Happiness is a letter from your favorite author!”

— Gayathri

If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a…

— Sei Shonagon

“Henceforth letter-writing had to take the place of all the affection that could not be lived.”

— Thornton Wilder

I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner.

— Dorothy Wordsworth

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

— Jane Austen

“I never knew what sad work the reading of old-letters was before that evening, though I could hardly tell why. The letters were as…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“An inspired letter can be as riveting as a stare. It can move us to tears, spur us to action, provoke us, uplift us,…

— Alexandra Stoddard