Letter Quotes

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain

Nice, Saying, Funeral

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Aristotle

Beauty, Personal, Greater

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
Ernest Hemingway

Girl, Bad, Someone

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wake-up letter.
Steven Wright

Night, Old, Last

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
Voltaire

Life, Word, Spirit

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice Walker

Flower, Creative, Often

I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.
Steven Wright

Simple, Everybody, List

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

Time, Longer, Usual

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal

Long, Present, Simply

A letter does not blush.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Meaning, Full, Force

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

Long, Person, Cannot

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.
Charles Dickens

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Judge, Someone, Real

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
Arthur Schopenhauer

True, Someone, Him

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
Lewis Carroll

Write, Read, Takes

I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.
John Steinbeck

Long, Old, Though

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.
Henry Miller

Good, Speak, Write

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

Important, Far, Hold

I'm lucky if I write a letter.
Jennifer Aniston

For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
Charles Baudelaire

Write, Subject, Lines

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'
Tiger Woods

Life, Feeling, Winning

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
Jean Cocteau

Death, Long, After

My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'
Jerry Saltz

Love, Best, Movies

I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X.
Norah Jones

Around, Hanging, Stood

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
Edith Wharton

Time, Long, Ask

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.
Stephen Fry

Time, Someone, Knowing

On the very same day that I ordered an iPad 2, I went shopping to buy myself a letter opener. I like to cover all my bases.
Susan Orlean

Same, Shopping, Cover

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
Billy Joel

Good, Die, Young

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.
Pat Robertson

Age, End, Before

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