Best Letters Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Hall: Now First Collected. With Some Account of His Life and Sufferings, Written by Himself

“It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.”

Want Knowing Letters Phones Rings Email Want Something Exhausting

Author:Stephen Fry

“Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".”

Said Faces Letters Stupidity Hated Hideous Woolf Keynes Crass

Author:Leonard Woolf

“I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right out and call me Satan and hope that I'm damned to hell.”

Hell Type Bible Letters Satan Call Me Belts

Author:George A. Romero

“Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.”

Firsts Letters Affection Heirs

Book:Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

Source: Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

“PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the erroneous nature of his views and style, and signed "Perfection," promptly wrote at the foot of the letter: "I don't agree with you," and mailed it to Matthew Arnold.”

States Views Quality Known Feet Style Elements Perfection Letters Agree Excellence Critics Magazines Editors Attributes Imaginary Pointing Distinguished Matthew

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“In April, I asked my staff to determine if Senate rules and relevant laws would allow me to direct the trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock. In May, my staff worked with outside counsel and with the Senate ethics committee staff to draft a written communication to the trustees. After obtaining pre-approval by mid-June from the Senate ethics committee, I issued a letter directing my trustees to sell any remaining HCA stock in my family's trust.”

Ifs May Law Written Communication Ethics Direct My Family Letters Sells Determine Relevant Senate Approval Staff Committees June April Obtaining Trustees

Author:Bill Frist

“Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.”

Firsts Taught Lovers Letters Aids Maids Captives

Book:The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

Source: The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe

“Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.”

People Thinking Use Bigs Today Laughing Four Letters Shooting Shock Panic Shortcuts Four Letter Words

Author:Red Skelton

“Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof; Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.”

Truth Speak Wealth Virtue Letters Dare Wit Dumb Accents Speak The Truth Mute Aloof Ragged Reproof

Book:The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay

Source: The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke. with a memoir by J.L. Hannay

“When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.”

Firsts Persons Accepting Return Letters Casts Accepted Insult

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Everyday, the mail brings the thousands of letters, and you hand over to Me personally hundreds more. Yet, I do not take the help of anyone else, even to open the envelopes. For, you write to me intimate details of your personal problems, believing that I alone will read them and having implicit confidence in Me. You write, each one only a single letter, that makes for Me a huge bundle a day; and I have to go through all of them. You may ask how I manage it? Well I do not waste a single moment.”