Letters Quotes - Page 14

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.

Prosperity knits a man to the world.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

When I awake dramatically I start off my day by reciting aloud a fan letter.

A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.

One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.

I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces.

Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.

A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.

It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality.

We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.