Character Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater

“In nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation. —JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER”

— Dorothea Johnson

Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial…

— Brooks Atkinson

LOVE LETTERS, correspondence that should always bear the salutation: My Dearest, and Gentlemen of the Jury;

— Nikhil Saluja

Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice,…

— Napoleon Hill

“I am at your service, my lady," I said, standing and releasing her hand. For the first time in my life I understood the…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“For the first time in my life I understood the true purpose of this sort of formal greeting. It gives you a script to…

— Patrick Rothfuss

There is something to be said for the openness to form, and literary form because it forces you to actually think about the other…

— Marco Roth

That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it…

— Charles Caleb Colton

“And how do you open yourself up to hellos when you're already preparing to say good-bye?”

— Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

“This is often the way we put together our lives, adding the striking qualities of others into our own character.”

— Renee Fleming

Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer…

— Robert Benchley

The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

— Wallace Stegner