Quotes About Letter
Miss Grandison has just now told her sister what passed between us. Lady L. says, she would not have been Miss Grandison, in taking the letter, by what means soever come at; for how, said she, did I know what secrets there might be in it, before I read it? But I think verily, when it had been got at, and offered me, I could not have been Miss Byron.
~ Samuel Richardson
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let me read over again that fearful letter of yours, that I may get it by heart, and with it feed my distress, and make calamity familiar to me.
~ Samuel Richardson
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I have just received my uncle's Letter. And, after his charge upon me of Vanity and Pride, will my parade, as above, stand me in any stead? — I must trust to it. Only one word to my dear and everhonoured uncle — Don't you, Sir, impute to me a belief of the truth of those extravagant compliments made by men professing Love to me; and I will not wish you to think me one bit the wiser, the handsomer, the better for them, than I was before.
~ Samuel Richardson
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Dear Reader, I'm most excited to share with you, in digital form for the first time, this love story. It was written and published early in my career when finished manuscripts were delivered on paper instead of in an email! I consider each book I write to be a personal letter to you, the reader. This is particularly true of the stories in which a man and
~ Sandra Brown
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This is America. We're supposed to be free to be Jewish here, to live in peace and not be afraid. George Washington literally said so in that letter he wrote to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island. (163)
~ Sarah Darer Littman
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On October 1, Lafayette mailed Adrienne a bubbly update about the progress of his apparently adorable wound. "The surgeons are astonished by the rate at which it heals," he cooed. "They are in ecstasy every time they dress it, and maintain that it is the most beautiful thing in the world.
~ Sarah Vowell
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Why is it that Alsop is writing such a letter, warning Israel that it stands in danger of destruction and reminding it that it has only one protector? It is because "bad trouble has begun between Israel and America." For one thing, Alsop is shocked by Israel's ingratitude to Secretary of State Kissinger.
~ Saul Bellow
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By the word letter Paul means preaching which is external and does not reach the heart; by Spirit he means teaching which is alive, which works mightily in the souls of men by the grace of the Spirit. Letter
~ John Calvin
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Though she were true when you met her. and last till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three.
~ John Donne
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
~ Aristotle
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What did you write in the letter?" Frog said, "I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' "Oh, said Toad, "that makes a very good letter.
~ Arnold Lobel
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We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.
~ Fredrik Bajer
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I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old.
~ Tom Stoppard
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In the immediate aftermath of the hurricane, I sent a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen L Johnson urging him to waive regulations to allow for the early sale of winter grade fuel to help with gasoline shortages and gasoline prices.
~ Bob Ney
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In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right.
~ Robert Nelson
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I've already composed and written a letter to the House administration telling them to withhold my paycheck in the event of a lapse of appropriations.
~ Blake Farenthold
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It is questionless desirable in all ordinary cases, wherever positive law is established, to restrain ourselves within the letter of that law and to allow the criminal all the benefit, if benefit to him shall result, of any evasion or escape that the law shall afford him.
~ William Godwin
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She kindly laments that I am not of the party, and to be sure I honour great ladies, and I admire great wits, but I am of the same opinion in regard to assemblies that is held concerning oysters, that they are never good in a month that has not the letter R in it.
~ Elizabeth Montagu
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What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'
~ James Wolcott
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I'll get a three-page letter and the last paragraph says 'I know you'll never read this, but here's my number.' I love to call those people because the first thing they say is, 'Governor, I didn't mean everything I said in the letter about you.'
~ Dave Heineman
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I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.
~ Richard Harding Davis
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When Beethoven made sharp response to a letter from his brother Karl, who embellished his signature with the phrase "land-owner," the composer added "brain-owner" to his own autograph.
~ Russell Sherman
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You have sent a letter to me through the hand of a friend of yours, as you call him. And in your very next sentence you warn me not to discuss with him all the matters that concern you, saying that even you yourself are not accustomed to do this; in other words, you have in the same letter affirmed and denied that he is your friend.
~ Marcus Aurelius
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But if it's a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don't tell a story only to yourself. There's always someone else. Even when there is no one. A story is like a letter. Dear You, I'll say. Just you, without a name. Attaching a name attaches you to the world of fact, which is riskier, more hazardous: who knows what the chances are out there, of survival, yours? I will say you, you, like an old love song.
~ Margaret Atwood
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