Handwriting Quotes

“A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. ”
― Christian Dior

“My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.”
― James Robertson, The Testament of Gideon Mack

“...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.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories

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

“Handwriting is a spiritual designing, even though it appears by means of a material instrument.”
― Euclid

“the beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

“I don’t think I’ve ever seen your handwriting before. It’s an oddly personal thing, isn’t it?”
― Ann Aguirre, Aftermath

“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

“I see you are reading a sad story," Mother said sympathetically to the now less-than-august lady, though privately she wondered how you could sleep with a man with such bad handwriting.”
― Charles Newman, In Partial Disgrace

“It's old-school to write by hand, but Jess likes the way the words blossom under her fingertips [. . .] These scribblings and imaginings are for no one else.”
― C.B. Lee, Not Your Sidekick

“Handwriting is the shackle of the mind.”
― Plato

“Handwriting is the garden of the sciences.”
― Abu Dulaf

“Handwriting is rooted in the spirit, even though it appears by means of bodily senses.”
― Al-Nazzam

“I squint to decipher his scratchy boy writing.”
― Michelle Krys, Dead Girls Society

“I'm in one of the few professions where one still encounters swaths of handwriting on a regular basis - education.”
― Anne Gisleson, The Futilitarians: Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading

“Cuando usamos el bolígrafo sobre el papel no solo encendemos la luz, también aumentamos la temperatura. Escribir a mano nos ayuda a pensar y sentir al mismo tiempo”
― Ryder Carroll, The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future

“If you dipped a spider in ink and then let it breakdance on a clean sheet of paper, you'd have a fair approximation of the state of my handwriting. I blame the internet myself. If I had to publish things in my handwriting, the only thing I could make money at would be selling ransom notes.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Nature is the sig-nature of God, written above, below, and beyond the universe.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“It takes more than good handwriting to become a Learned Magician,” scoffed Sir Griffin, highly irritated.

“Of course it does,” the girl replied with scorn, “but if a word is spelled wrong or badly, that destroys a spell. The basis of good spellcraft begins in writing. After all, the word spell means the arrangement of letters.”

Like most who had tried to debate with Poppy Parker, Sir Griffin found himself at a dead end.”
― Byrd Nash, Price of a Rose: A Beauty & Beast Tale

“I fell in love with my father's signature. His love for his own name was something to see. He saw himself full of pomp, of crowns, of pride. My father's pride was cosmic in scale.”
― Manuel Vilas, Ordesa

“Aunt Emily's writing is as wispy and hard to decipher as the marks of a speed skater on ice.”
― Joy Kogawa, Obasan

“The handwriting on the wall is useless unless you read it.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Leadership by Example: Be a role model who inspires greatness in others

“It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“This is just the way that I draw; it's how I've always drawn. [...] I think of it like handwriting.”
― Roz Chast, Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, Health-inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006

“Red Cursive Letters —
Half-Printed,
Nearly Missing The Opening Line.
You Wrote Drunkenly
On Crumbling Paper
While The Truth Is Sliced Up
Into One Lie”
― Laura Chouette, The Willow Song

“Red Cursive Letters —
Half-Printed,
Nearly Missing The Opening Line.
You Wrote Drunkenly
On Crumbling Paper
While The Truth Is Split Up
Into One Lie”
― Laura Chouette, The Willow Song

“If you’re writing on a computer, you’ll think of the sort of thing that you mean, and then write that down and look at it and then fiddle with it and get it to be the thing that you mean. If you’re writing in fountain pen, if you do that, you just wind up with a page covered with crossings out, so it’s actually so much easier to just think a little more. You slow up a bit, but you’re thinking the sentence through to the end, and then you start writing.”
― Neil Gaiman

“If you are going to make any mark, strive to make a deep impression, because that is how to live forever.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Sips And Little Portions

“Dust dances in the light
like tiny ghosts of stories.
I open a yellowed page—
your handwriting
from another lifetime. The shopkeeper pretends
not to see my tears.
He wraps the book
in silence.
I carry it home
like a wound
that refuses to heal”
― Avijeet Das , A Handful of Shuilis