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Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear.

Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.

[Hospitalized and pressing the nurse's button before dictating letters to her secretary:] This should assure us of at least forty-five minutes of undisturbed privacy.

Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England.

How endless is that volume which God hath written of the world! Every creature is a letter, every day a new page.

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

I am proposing to you as a rallying emblem the letter V, because V is the first letter of the words 'Victoire' in French, and 'Vrijheid' in Flemish... the Victory which will give us back our freedom, the Victory of our good friends the English. Their word for Victory also begins with V. As you see, things fit all round.

I bought a gun safe with velvet shelves and a built-in dehumidifier to house the hundreds of original [Barbara] Stanwyck letters I amassed that I first kept in the lettuce crisper of a refrigerator in my basement.

I assume I can give you a letter from a big law firm saying that we're under audit.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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

I did get a letter which was pretty alarming once. Well, it was sent to the Fifty Shades production office. And it was pretty ... I'd say interesting. I don't really want to go into that. But otherwise the response has been good, thankfully.

I can take a lot of pats on the back. I love it when I get admiring letters from people. And, of course, I'd love it if the critics would notice me, too.

I didn't offer transparency. I provided one quarterly report in letter form. That was all you got. I basically demanded that if you're going to invest in my fund you need to accept my terms. The terms not being super highs, but just, I'm not going to cater to you.

I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

I don't even know how to Direct Message someone on Instagram. I still write letters.

I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don't know how I feel about this idea of, "Now, I'm eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I'm having dinner at this time." or "I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids." That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon.

I dont get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

I don't read "letters" sections of magazines, but I'll read anyone's blog post about me.

I don't read the "letters" section of Time magazine. I think it's just my habit as a reader. I don't read comments on stories, in general.

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

I don't think a woman [Hillary Clinton] who has revealed numerous classified information, doesn't know that the letter "C" means confidential.

I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it.

I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.

If doubtful whether to end with "yours faithfully," or "yours truly," or "yours most truly," &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach "yours affectionately"), refer to your correspondent's last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his: in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!

If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.

If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all

If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.

If I'm in a relationship, that girl gets showered with letters from the road. I pour my heart into it.

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms.

If I wrote you a love letter, would you write back?

If plan A fails, remember there are 25 more letters.

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back.

If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist." It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.

If someone took the 'F' letter off me, I'd be ucked.

If truth were everywhere to be shown, a scarlet letter would blaze forth on many a bosom.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

If your letters are as long as the bible, they will appear short to me. Only let them be brim full of affection.