Quotes About Letters

Did you really JUST fall, Jeffrey? Why does everybody in my family talk in these dramatic CAPITAL LETTERS all the time? Why am I the only calm one?

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.

I have always hated flying. I mainly pass the time writing letters. I am very old school and I still keep many correspondences the old-fashioned way, via post.

Se non fosse stato per quella sofferenza che non avrebbe avuto nulla di pudibondo per chi non fosse stata ammalata anche di pudibondia, e se non fosse stato per la perdita delle lettere, a Fernanda non sarebbe importata la pioggia, perché in fin dei conti tutta la vita era stata per lei come se stesse piovendo.

And still the handwritten letters keep coming, the words keep coming, the words a woman wants to hear. No dashed-off faxes from Trader. Faxes, which fade in six months, like contemporary love. No scrawled reminders propped against the toaster, such as I get from Tobe. And used to get from Deniss, from Jon, from Shawn, from Duwain. GET SOME TOILET PAPER FOR CHRIST SAKE. That wouldn't do for Jennifer. She got a fucking poem every other day.

As you are aware, E is the most common letter in the English alphabet

Did I envy a man who could afford to throw away an expensive piece of paper on a short note, or think him a fool? In any case, I carefully tore the clean end of the sheet from the written area and tucked it into my drawer to save for my own letters.

They discuss the characters as though they were living people, and ask frequently, 'What happened to so-and-so?'... as if I got letters from them every now and again.

He was sorry for himself as well, for he was doomed to find life and identity in death letters.

The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion.

I love you is eight letters...then again, so is bullshit.

You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

Why do you think nobody writes love letters like these anymore?" she says instead, pulling one from her bag. "I mean, yes, there are texts and e-mails and things, but nobody sends them in language like this, do they? Nobody spells it out anymore like our unknown lover did.

Well, HALLELUJAH! FOUR letters - ranging from April 28th to May 27th - came home today and the world looks much different. One was sealed with a kiss, one was sealed with a Big kiss, one was sealed with a peck (?), and one was just sealed, which means I got spit on.

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

Her handwriting was curious — small sharp little letters with no capitals (who did she think she was, e. e. cummings?).

And yet the sternness sometimes displayed in your letters to your children bespeaks an appalling sense of doom, as if they, as the product of your sin, had no chance for salvation except as partners in your renunciation.

These letters may have been the closest Hester Leggett ever came to romance: chattering pastiches of a young woman madly in love, and with little time for grammar.

Thousands of letters of protest poured in,

Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his life

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

I'm a hopeless romantic and a believer in handwritten letters.

As usual, it struck me that letters were the only really satisfactory form of literature. They give one the facts so amazingly, don't they? I felt when I got to the end that I'd lived for years in that set. But oh dearie me I am glad that I'm not in it!