Quotes About Letters

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

But great talent, even when its existence is not yet recognised, will inevitably provoke certain phenomena of admiration, such as the landlord had managed to detect in the questions asked by more than one English lady visitor, athirst for information as to the life led by Elstir, or in the number of letters that he received from abroad.

I thought of you, of our walks you made so delightful, while tremendous fights were going on for the capture of a hillock you loved and where so often we had been together. Probably you, like myself, are unable to imagine that obscure Roussainville and tiresome Méséglise, whence our letters were brought and where one went to fetch the doctor when you were ill, are now celebrated places

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.

When we read Paul, we are reading somebody else's mail—and unless we know the situation being addressed, his letters can be quite opaque...It is wise to remember that when we are reading letters never intended for us, any problems of understanding are ours and not theirs.

So the letters took a long time to get there, and the replies even longer to get back, and all the news was out of date; and this gave his correspondence a peculiar timeless quality which was very soothing.

Stelele sunt asezate astfel incat sa formeze litere. Alfabete celeste. Scrieri care se schimba pe masura ce se mischa pamantul. Daca te uiti asa la cer, ai senzatia ca e un imens poem schimbator , sau poate o schrisoare , care initial a avut un autor, apoi, dupa ce pamantul s-a mischat, un alt autor a completat-o . Asa ca stau si ma uit la cer, pana cand , intr-o zi , voi putea s-o citesc.

Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while in the case of letters there is no such need whatsoever.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.

S)uccessful people, no matter how busy, seem to make time to write letters.

I get a lot of letters - a lot of letters saying, who knew that you were funny?

Asia: Four little letters, three billion little people.

When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence,' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived.

Count no woman wise, until thou hast received a letter from her hand; but love none thou hast not seen face to face, for she who is not foolish on paper is worth knowing.

you mailed your banned poems cloaked as letters to your sister-in-law because the silence of the world was a storm flooding your ears.

To friends, she sent bouquets, and to some of her numerous correspondents—over one thousand of her letters have been found—pressed flowers.

Rather, they are letters of truth; they speak and know themselves. Each letter is a perfect truth13 like a perfect book, for they are letters written in unity, written by the father for the eternal realms, so that by means of his letters they might come to know the father.

letters of Cicero

Arrietty used to make her 'e's' like little half-moons with a stroke in the middle-" "Well?" said Kate Mrs. May laughed and took up her work again. "My brother did too," she said.

The letters fading like retreating strangers in a fog.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

Writing love letters was a blasted difficult thing to do, especially with the lady in question commenting on every line.