Letter Writing Quotes - Page 2

• I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Important, Letters, Parentheses

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Two, Letters

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.78, BookBaby

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• This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.

  Anthony Trollope

  Writing, Twenties, World

  Anthony Trollope (1859). “The Bertrams: A Novel”, p.313

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

  Lawrence Durrell

  Love, Men, Letters

  Lawrence Durrell (1991). “Clea”, Penguin Group USA

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• We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Life, Letters, Lasts

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1868). “Novels and Tales by Goethe”, p.181

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• And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Letters, Guilty

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• If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Writing, Advice, Doubt

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• I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Writing, Men, Names

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• If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.

  Robert Benchley

  Writing, Wind, Mind

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• Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.

  George Eliot

  Writing, Self, Answers

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.671

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• Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

  Russell Baker

  Writing, Media, People

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• I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!

  Geraldine Jewsbury

  Writing, Mind, Wish

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• I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I have to communicate with my dad using numbers.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Dad, Writing

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• Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.

  Agnes Repplier

  Passion, Writing, Heart

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• Lobbying, protesting, letter-writing, American media, civil disobedience, and preaching pacifism ad nauseum, along with EDUCATION is the most effective way to enlighten the masses. Welfare concessions/campaigns, are counterproductive and simply ineffective in this day and age.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Writing, Media, Age

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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