Letters Quotes
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.Letters
Byron, Lord
1788-1824 British Poet
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.
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Chesterfield, Lord
1694-1773 British Statesman Author
A letter does not blush.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
More than kisses letters mingle souls.
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Donne, John
1572-1632 British Metaphysical Poet
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak.
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Donne, John
1572-1632 British Metaphysical Poet
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 it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.
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Drew, Elizabeth
1887-1965 Anglo-American Author Critic
A woman s best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
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Durrell, Lawrence
1912-1990 British Author
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires...
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Hardwick, Elizabeth
1916 American Novelist
Or don t you like to write letters. I do because it s such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you ve done something.
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Hemingway, Ernest
1898-1961 American Writer
In a man s letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation -- a proof of unwillingness to do much, even where there is a necessity of doing something.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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Lawrence, D. H.
1885-1930 British Author
Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!
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Macdonald, Sir John A.
1815-1891 Canadian First Prime Minister
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
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Miller, Henry
1891-1980 American Author
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich
1844-1900 German Philosopher
The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains.
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Proverb
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
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Smith, Sydney
1771-1845 British Writer Clergyman
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist -- nothing shields him from the world s gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)
1899-1985 American Author Editor