Quotes:
The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
View quotes by Charles Lamb
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!
View quotes by Theodor Geisel
Your letter of excuses has arrived. I receive the letter but do not admit the excuses except in courtesy, as when a man treads on your toes and begs your pardon - the pardon is granted, but the joint aches, especially if there is a corn upon it.
View quotes by Lord Byron
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.
View quotes by Barbara Tuchman
A dead end street is a good place to turn around. [Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!]
View quotes by Naomi Judd
On the death of Joan Crawford
'My mother told me never to speak badly of the dead. She's dead....Good'
View quotes by Bette Davis
Ideology in the Soviet Union is both dead, and very much alive. Dead at the level of faith; alive as an indispensible rationale of policy.
View quotes by Milovan Djilas
For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. Venus and Adonis line 1019
View quotes by William Shakespeare
You know what a fan letter is - it's just an inky raspberry
View quotes by Bob Hope
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for (letter to her husband)
View quotes by Jane Carlyle
The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.
View quotes by Leslie Nielsen
I perceive that that man [Cranmer] hath the right sow by the ear. [Letter, 1529]
View quotes by Henry VIII
Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.
View quotes by Dorothy Parker
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
View quotes by Aristotle
That indefatigable and unsavoury engine of pollution, the dog (letter to The Times)
View quotes by John Sparrow
Remember me when I am dead
And simplify me when I'm dead (Simplify me when I'm dead)
View quotes by Keith Douglas
I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal. (Letter to Duncan Grant)
View quotes by John Maynard Keynes
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
View quotes by Alvin Toffler
Not only do they know nothing about football, but if you were to shut them up in a room by themselves, they couldn't even write a letter to mother [on sports journalists]
View quotes by Cesar Menotti
Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man has as good be engaged in law suits as have to do with her (letter to Edmund Halley)
View quotes by Sir Isaac Newton
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