Dear John may refer to:
- Dear John letter, a break-up letter to an absent boyfriend or husband
- Dear John Doe letter, a letter sent to a soldier's family notifying them the soldier has died.
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Famous quotes containing the words dear and/or john:
“Ah, Governor [Murphy, of New Jersey], don’t try to deceive me as to the sentiment of the dear people. I have been hearing from the West and the East, and the South seems to be the only section which approves of me at all, and that comes from merely a generous impulse, for even that section would deny me its votes.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“Dead of a dark thing, John Holmes, you’ve been lost
in the college chapel, mourned as father and teacher,
mourned with piety and grace under the University Cross.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)