Letters Quotes - Page 2

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.

If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.

Do you tell me that the Bible is against our rights? Then I say that our claims do not rest upon a book written no one knows when, or by whom. Do you tell me what Paul or Peter says on the subject? Then again I reply that our claims do not rest on the opinions of any one, not even on those of Paul and Peter, . . . Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

I didn't offer transparency. I provided one quarterly report in letter form. That was all you got. I basically demanded that if you're going to invest in my fund you need to accept my terms. The terms not being super highs, but just, I'm not going to cater to you.

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

Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

A 5 letter word for happiness: MONEY.

truth is a letter from courage!

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

Letters are things, not pictures of things.

Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear.

Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.

My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.