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1. Never write a letter while you are

Never write a letter while you are angry.  ~Chinese Proverb

2. A womans best love letters are always

A woman’s best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.  ~Lawrence Durrell

3. One of the pleasures reading old letters

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.  ~Lord Byron

4. In a mans letters you know madam

In a man’s letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process.  Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives.  ~Samuel Johnson

5. My songs are just little letters to

My songs are just little letters to me.  ~Ani Difranco

6. A friendship can weather most things and

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.  ~Pam Brown

7. A letter is an unannounced visit the

A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises.  One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

8. My eyes moistened yesterday with your dear

[M]y eyes moistened yesterday with your dear, dear letter in my hand. Was it foolish to kiss the senseless paper, to clasp it with the involuntary laugh of uncontrollable emotion? Don’t you think one could go mad of pure longing?… ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate StephensTPVgb, Smith b.1849-d.1877, Stephens b.1853-d.1938; Smith was Professor of […]

9. A letter is a joy of earth

A Letter is a Joy of Earth – It is denied the Gods ~Emily Dickinson, 1885

10. His sayings are generally like womens letters

His sayings are generally like women’s letters; all the pith is in the postscript.  ~William Hazlitt

11. Mr witwould 34pray madam do you pin

Mr Witwould:  "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters?  I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant:  "Only with those in verse…. I never pin up my hair with prose." ~William Congreve, The Way of the World

12. Politeness is as much concerned in answering

Politeness is as much concerned in answering letters within a reasonable time, as it is in returning a bow, immediately.  ~Lord Chesterfield

13. Your letteryour dear warm true hearted letter

[Y]our letter?your dear, warm, true-hearted letter ? was put in my hand. I kissed it how many times before breaking its envelope! ~Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate StephensTPVgb, Smith b.1849-d.1877, Stephens b.1853-d.1938; Smith was Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Kansas from 1872-1875

14. Letters are above all useful as a

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

15. Grammar is the grave of letters elbert

Grammar is the grave of letters.  ~Elbert Hubbard

16. I am tired beloved of chafing my

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it. ~Amy Lowell, "The Letter"

17. What a wonderful thing is the mail

What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp.  ~Author Unknownquoted by Ranjan Bakshi

18. And none will hear the postmans knock

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

19. What a lot we lost when stopped

What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters.  You can’t reread a phone call.  ~Liz Carpenter

20. Or dont you like to write letters

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

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21. If you must reread old love letters

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966CSN

22. We lay aside letters never to read

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

23. I have received no more than one

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.  ~Henry David Thoreau, WaldenMCTO

24. I consider it a good rule for

I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.  ~Sigmund FreudCUL

25. A woman seldom writes her mind but

A woman seldom writes her Mind, but in her Postscript.  ~Richard Steele, SpectatorMCTO

26. The talent of writing agreeable letters is

The talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.  ~Henry Tilney

27. In an age like ours which is

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 BroyardCUL