Letters Quotes

• A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

  Pam Brown

  Friendship, Silly, Weather

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• I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Marriage, God

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• Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Miracle

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.13, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

  John Donne

  Love, Romantic, Kissing

  'To Sir Henry Wotton' (1597-8)

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• Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

  Isidore of Seville

  Eye, Voice, Ears

  "An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville", by Ernest Brehaut New York: B. Franklin, 1964.

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• Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

  E. M. Forster

  Two, Personality, Tests

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Inspirational, Communication, Mean

  Elizabeth Hardwick (2017). “The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick”, p.27, New York Review of Books

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• You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

  Judith Martin

  Real, Giving, Attention

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• Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Memorial, Literature, Significant

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• A letter does not blush.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Doe, Blushing

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1899). “The Letters of Cicero: B.C. 51-49”, p.23, Charles River Editors

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• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Done, Way

  Ernest Hemingway (1981). “Selected Letters, 1917-1961”

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• Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

  Samuel Butler

  Wine, Men, Sound

  Samuel Butler (1951). “Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill”

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• One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

  Lord Byron

  Reading, Knowledge, Needs

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• What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.

  Liz Carpenter

  Love, Women, Memorable

  Liz Carpenter (1993). “Getting Better All the Time”, Texas A & M University Press

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• Never write a letter while you are angry.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Wise, Writing, Angry

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• I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

  Blaise Pascal

  Time, Learning, Usual

  Lettres Provinciales no. 16 (1657) See Thoreau 34; WoodrowWilson 25

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• To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere, without moving anything but your heart.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Teacher, Appreciation, Moving

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• A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Writing, Long

  Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.157, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

  Shana Alexander

  Expectations, Envelopes

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

  Contentment, Life Is, Filled

  Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.66, Penguin

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• It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Writing, Two, Quarrels

  Elizabeth Drew (1964). “The Literature of Gossip”

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• You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

  Ada Leverson

  Knows

  'Tenterhooks' (1912) ch. 7

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• Once in a while you start having second thoughts, then you read a letter from someone that lifts your spirits so much - it really makes a huge difference. I love reading them.

  Corbin Bleu

  Book, Reading, Differences

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• The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

  Lukas Foss

  Writing, Creative, Want

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• A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Love, Men, Betray

  Lawrence Durrell (1991). “Clea”, Penguin Group USA

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