“There are words agreeable to the eye (in the same way there are words agreeable to the ear). By a fortunate combination of the letters that form them or by the harmony of these letters. For each letter has its shape.”

“Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.”
Litterae autem sunt indices rerum, signa verborum, quibus tanta vis est, ut nobis dicta absentium sine voce loquantur. Verba enim per oculos non per aures introducunt.

Isidore of Seville book Etymologiae

“The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.”

Alfred Brendel (1931) Austrian pianist, poet, and author

“Now, look, baby, 'Union' is spelled with 5 letters. It is not a four-letter word.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“If. A two-letter word for futility.”

Sidney Sheldon Master of the Game

“Life is a four-letter word.”

Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) comedian and social critic

“You’ve got some folks out here who know a lot of four letter words. But there are two four-letter words they don’t know. W-O-R-K and S-O-A-P, you don’t know those two letter words I’ll tell you that much.”

George Wallace (1919–1998) 45th Governor of Alabama

“In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.”

John Grogan (1958) American journalist

“I don't want to use four-letter words.”

Sergey Lavrov (1950) Russian politician and Foreign Minister

“It is no coincidence that the words 'trying' and 'dying' are only a few letters apart.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author