Quotes About Letters


A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. 
Emily Dickinson
There must be millions of people all over the world who never get any love letters... I could be their leader. 
Charlie Brown
Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately. 
Lord Chesterfield
In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.  
Anatole Broyard
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
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.  
Sigmund Freud
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. 
Sydney Smith
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman.  Eternal love and instant payment!  
Douglas Jerrold
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters.  You can't reread a phone call. 
Liz Carpenter
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. 
 Phyllis Theroux

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