Quotes About Correspondence

Drop her a note, make the introduction, tell her what you're doing here, the usual routine.

My buddies and I wrote letters to hundreds of pofessional players, asking for autographed photos. Occasionally one responded, and to get a photo in th email was a reason to strut.

It was written by Jerry Alisandros and sent to about eighty lawyers, one of whom was Wally Figg.

On January 3, 1567, Mary wrote to say that she accepted the offer

Moreover, we have already seen that letters 7 and 8 were forgeries on the evidence of their contents.

She was not allowed to write to him

James's first letter to his mother appears to have been written as late as March 1585, when he was eighteen.

Mary found Elizabeth's letter so insulting, she refused to reply at all.

A lead is good not because it dances, fires cannons, or whistles like a train but because it is absolute to what follows.

Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.

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You have the same smile, the same shaped eyes, the same way of tilting your head to listen, the same stubborn streak, the same common sense. Lots of things about you and him are the same.

this style also her letter on bleeding, on lemons and so forth, supposing it to be typical of the letters of Madame de Sévigné. But my grandmother who had approached that lady from within, attracted to her by her own love of kinsfolk and of nature, had taught me to enjoy the real beauties of her correspondence, which are altogether different

A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.

She wrote Dear James. She went on to say nothing directly about his friendliness or her loneliness. If she replied with the whole truth - why wouldn't she feel lonely at times? - he might be encouraged to do more probing and destroy one of the qualities she most enjoyed about this correspondence: giving or withholding at will. Wasn't that the great advantage of living one's life alone, the control?

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

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be

I never ceased to believe that they corresponded to a reality independent of myself, and they made me conscious of as glorious a hope as could have been cherished by a Christian in the primitive age of faith, on the eve of his entry into Paradise.

In my adolescence, when I believed exactly what I was told, doubtless, on hearing the German Government protest its good faith, I should have been inclined to believe it, but now for a long time I had realised that our thoughts do not always correspond with our words.

It is I suppose comprehensible that the letters which we receive from a person are more or less similar and combine to trace an image of the writer so different from the person whom we know as to constitute a second personality.

This was indeed what was meant by nobility, by intelligence of diction. Now I could appreciate the merits of a broad, poetical, powerful interpretation, or rather it was to this that those epithets were conventionally applied, but only as we give the names of mars, venus, saturn to planets which have nothing mythological about them. We feel in one world, we think, we give names to things in another; between the two we can establish a certain correspondence, but not bridge the gap

The archives of the château would be of interest to you. There is some absolutely fascinating correspondence between all the most prominent figures in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. I spend many very happy hours there, living in the past," the Comtesse assured me, and I was reminded of M. de Guermantes remarking that she was an extremely cultured woman as far as literature was concerned.

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

So the letters took a long time to get there, and the replies even longer to get back, and all the news was out of date; and this gave his correspondence a peculiar timeless quality which was very soothing.