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Quotes About Letter

Each and every day, I get One letter like a bride. I'm responding to my friend, Writing late at night: "On my way into the dark, I've stopped in white death's den. My dear, don't leave an evil mark On another man." And a brilliant star gleams Between two trees at night, Calmly promising that dreams Will soon be satisfied.
~ Anna Akhmatova
nashi no hana / tsuki ni fumi yomu / onna ari A woman Reading a letter by moonlight Pear blossoms.
~ Faubion Bowers
Piccola Ophelinha, non so se mi vuole bene, ma le scrivo esattamente per questo motivo.
~ Fernando Pessoa
So research is a terribly imperfect science, and you learn an awful lot more after you've published a book, because people keep writing to you and saying, 'Oh, gosh, I was related to such and such a character and I have a letter in my possession.'
~ Simon Winchester
When the letter Shin is introduced into the middle of the word (YHVH) Jehovah, it becomes (YHShVH) Jeshuah—Jesus.
~ Lon Milo DuQuette
In his pocket was a letter with directions from the only man he knew would give someone like him a chance.  His former captain in the cavalry knewhow hard and how well he could work. 
~ Louis L'Amour
Mr. Laurence. I have got a letter for the lady.
~ Louisa May Alcott
In Heaven's name, don't make this letter public, since, were you to do so, I fear my brethren of the Methodist Church might fear I had so far fallen from grace as to leave no hope of recovery.
~ Ron Chernow
mauve-grey envelope
~ Ruth Rendell
I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.
~ Max Schmeling
And at the end of his letter one terrible sentence. 'If I loved you I would have written differently.
~ Alice Munro
Tämän kirjeen kirjoittaminen on kuin panisi viestin pulloon - ja toivoisi sen päätyvän Japaniin.
~ Alice Munro
They would go back to their homes and put me to rest, a letter from the past never reopened or reread.
~ Alice Sebold
I is the first letter of the alphabet, the first word of the language, the first thought of the mind, the first object of affection.
~ Ambrose Bierce
You know, there is only one letter's difference between lonely and lovely," I told him once when he was down. "There is only one letter's difference between loner and loser," he retorted.
~ Joey Goebel
I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter.
~ Johann Georg Hamann
Today I raised your letter hastily to my lips, and it set my teeth on edge.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.
~ David Lodge
A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
~ Edgar Quinet
A dream which is not interpreted is like a letter which is not read.
~ Anonymous
Not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
~ Anonymous
An incident occurred while Cato was speaking which caused much amusement at his expense. A letter was brought in for Caesar, and Cato immediately accused him of being in touch with the conspirators. He challenged him to read the note out loud. Caesar simply passed it across: it was a love letter from Servilia, Caesar's mistress at the time and Cato's half-sister. Cato threw it back angrily with the words: "Take it, you drunken idiot.
~ Anthony Everitt
The letter repeated Atia's earlier advice to return to Rome quickly and quietly.
~ Anthony Everitt