Quotes of: Letter Keyword

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.

Sword & Citadel

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it

Selected Letters

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

The Scarlet Letter

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

The Screwtape Letters

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

Selected Letters

He laughed, a big, open-mouthed laugh that made her think of words beginning with the letter O.

Mirror's Edge

Dammnnn," Breccan slowly spoke each letter with a grin on his face that spread from ear to ear. "Impressive flames, guy.

Magnificence

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

Memoirs and Selected Letters

I have never cried in the shower. That's a woman thing I think.

Letters to Emma Bowlcut

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Letter to My Daughter

Dwelling much on the contemplation of little things, [we] are in danger of losing the intellectual appetite.

Letters to Young Ladies

I never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are.

Letters To Leonardo

If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive.

Letters to Milena

Except you cannot outrun insanity, anymore than you can outrun your own shadow.

Letters from a Bipolar Mother

If practice makes you perfect shouldn't good behavior be added to the curriculum

Letters to a Prisoner

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” [ ; November 16, 1857]

Letters to Various Persons

The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.

Letters from a Stoic

Possession of a friend should be with the spirit: the spirit's never absent: it sees daily whoever it likes.

Letters from a Stoic

A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.

Letters from a Stoic