Letter

Famous quotes containing the word letter:

    Shears: You mean, you intend to uphold the letter of the law, no matter what it costs?
    Colonel Nicholson: Without law, Commander, there is no civilization.
    Shears: That’s just my point. Here, there is no civilization.
    Colonel Nicholson: Then perhaps we have the opportunity to introduce it.
    Michael Wilson (1914–1978)

    And the one bird singing alone to his nest,
    And the one star over the tower.
    I thought of our little quarrels and strife,
    And the letter that brought me back my ring;
    And it all seem’d then, in the waste of life,
    “Owen” “Meredith” (1831–1891)

    This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
    Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)