Letters Quotes - Page 23

A letter, timely writ, is a rivet to the chain of affection; And a letter, untimely delayed, is as rust to the solder.

The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so good as to write to me.

A letter makes ordinary things seem important.

he who gives quickly gives twice / in nothing so much as in a letter.

Valek smiled. “Good. First, send Kade a reply, asking him not to come.” He pointed at the unopened letter on the table. I had forgotten about it. Sealed with wax, the message appeared to be secured. Valek shrugged. “I was bored.

A letter is the most imperishable thing on earth.

When it comes to bombshells, there are few that can be more effective than that small, flat, frail thing, a letter.

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.

Real writers-that is, capital W Writers-rarely make much money. Their biggest reward is the occasional reader's response.... Commentators-in-print voicing big fat opinions-you might call us small w writers-get considerably more feedback than Writers. The letters I personally find most flattering are not the very rare ones that speak well of my editorials, but the occasional reader who wants to know who writes them. I always happily assume the letter-writers is implying that the editorials are so good that I couldn't have written them myself.

According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.

No texting. What happens then? Good old-fashioned letters.

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).

Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a collection of letters sent from scout camp.

If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately"), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!

Magnitudes are algebraically represented by letter, men by men of letters, and so on.

Our first love-letter ... There is so much to be said, and which no words seems exactly to say - the dread of saying too much is so nicely balanced by the fear of saying too little. Hope borders on presumption, and fear on reproach.

If a synesthetic person says the letter a is green, it can't ever be anything but green.

169 House Democrats signed a letter to the President-elect [Donald Trump] urging him to "rescind this appointment [of Steve Bannon ] immediately."