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| To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ~ Phyllis Theroux |
| Never write a letter while you are angry. ~ Chinese Proverb |
| It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ~ Jacques Barzun, |
I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
~ Amy Lowell |
| Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ~ Lord Byron |
| What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. ~ Author Unknown |
| It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. ~ Elizabeth Drew |
And none will hear the postman’s knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
~ W.H. Auden |
| The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. ~ William Shenstone |
| What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call. ~ Liz Carpenter |
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| Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. ~ John Donne |
| Or don’t you like to write letters. I do because it’s such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you’ve done something. ~ Ernest Hemingway |
| A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment! ~ Douglas Jerrold, |
| If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. ~ Svetlana Alliluyeva |
| We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. ~ Sydney Smith |
| I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. ~ Henry David Thoreau, |
| A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ~ Emily Dickinson |
| The age of technology has both revived the use of writing and provided ever more reasons for its spiritual solace. Emails are letters, after all, more lasting than phone calls, even if many of them r 2 cursory 4 u. ~ Anna Quindlen |
| A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript. ~ Richard Steele, |
| When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket. ~ Elbert Hubbard |
| The talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female. ~ Henry Tilney |
| Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Grammar is the grave of letters. ~ Elbert Hubbard |
| When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter. ~ Francis Bacon, "Of Cunning," |
| Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires… ~ Elizabeth Hardwick |
| Then there’s the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again. ~ Lady Bird Johnson |
| In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the passing, we have arrived. ~ Knut Hamsun |
| A woman’s best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. ~ Lawrence Durrell |