Quotes about letters




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"Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company."

Byron, Lord on letters
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"Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately."

Chesterfield, Lord on letters    Share

"A letter does not blush."

Cicero, Marcus T. on letters    Share

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"More than kisses letters mingle souls."

Donne, John on letters    Share

"Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls. For, thus friends absent speak."

Donne, John on letters    Share

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

Durrell, Lawrence on letters
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"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."

Eliot, George on letters
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"Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on letters    Share

"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..."

Hardwick, Elizabeth on letters    Share

"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."

Hemingway, Ernest on letters    Share

"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."

Johnson, Samuel on letters    Share

"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."

Johnson, Samuel on letters    Share

"I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter."

Lawrence, D. H. on letters    Share

"Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!"

Macdonald, Sir John A. on letters    Share

"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."

Miller, Henry on letters    Share

"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."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on letters    Share

"The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains."

Proverb on letters    Share

"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."

Smith, Sydney on letters    Share

"I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage."

Thoreau, Henry David on letters    Share

"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."

White, Elwyn Brooks on letters    Share

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