Letters Quotes - Page 9

A stiff letter galls one like a stiff shirt collar -- whilst a sheet garnished here and there with a careless blot -- and here and there a dash -- but in the main full of excellent matter, is like a clever fellow in a dirty shirt whom we value for the good humour he brings with him and not for the garb he wears.

I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

Every week we ought to have one hour for recieving letters, then go take a bath.

I was treated much better in Africa than I was treated in America. And you see, often I get letters like this: "Go back to Africa."

Grammar is the grave of letters.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

You say love is just a four letter word.

I would like to make something that is real in itself that does not remind anyone of any other things, and that does not have to be explained like the letter A, for instance.

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.

I receive a lot of letters on tour, and read about a lot of people hurting.

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I'd been touched by an angel.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

I have been committed to carrying out my duties... in accordance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable rules of ethics and canons of conduct.

American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.

To pick up a cigarette wrapper or wine label or an old letter or the end of a carton is my way of dealing with those things that do not originate in me, in my I.

This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects.