38 Quotes About Handwriting

...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.

I'm in one of the few professions where one still encounters swaths of handwriting on a regular basis - education.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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