Handwriting Quotes

To my amazement, miraculously, the lid suddenly loosened and slid all the way open, revealing its hidden cargo: A stack of small paper booklets. Dozens and dozens of them. Booklets made of ordinary sheets of white writing paper, folded in half, and hand-stitched along the spine. Booklets in remarkably pristine condition, all covered in a small, neat handwriting that I instantly recognized. The hair stood up on the back of my neck. I could hardly breathe.

Handwriting enables civilization.

Toba Beta

Writing with a biro is the emotional equivalent of giving your loved one a plastic rose on Valentine’s Day.

Like seeing a photograph of yourself as a child, encountering handwriting that you know was once yours but that now seems only dimly familiar can inspire a confrontation with the mystery of time.

A bad handwriting is as annoying to a reader … as an irritating voice is to a listener.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Think about it: send SLASH receive. Email is the frenzied killer of proper communication.

We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have never thought that the man of Stratford-on-Avon wrote the plays of Shakespeare.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.

Charles Dickens

Irony, we want our handwriting to look like typed fonts, and our computer fonts to look like handwritten text.

Vikrmn

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

James Robertson

...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation.