Lewis Carroll Quotes

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

One of the biggest mistakes women make in business is that they aren't friendly enough.

Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest, the most care-free city on this continent.

I would LOVE to be in the Star Trek sequel! Yeah! I would love to! I better write that letter to J.J.[Abrahams]

Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then.

And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.

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

The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?

How lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.

Letters are largely written to get things out of your system.

You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.

A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.

A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. I don't know why, but it was one of the only things that made my boots lighter.

I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.