Telegram Quotes

33 Telegram quotes by 31 unique authors

Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you. — Dorothy Parker
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to… — Howard K. Smith
The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent. — Alexander Graham Bell
Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean… — Albert Camus
Hitler didn't snub me—it was FDR who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram. — Jesse Owens
Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang (I mean hang… — Vladimir Lenin
Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst… — Kristina McMorris
Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it… — Ben Hecht
So the patient went to the mountains, and do you know what? Next day a telegram arrived for the psychiatrist. The patient said in the… — Rajneesh
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening… — George Bernard Shaw
When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already… — Unknown Author
This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your… — Harry S. Truman
Fax me a fact and I'll telegram a hologram or telephone the son of man and tell him he is done. Leave a message on… — Saul Williams
If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our… — Mark Twain
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by… — Oscar Wilde
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. — George Ade
Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land. — Phil Ochs
The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things. — Don Henley
How to drive a guy crazy: send him a telegram and on the top put 'page 2.' — Henny Youngman
Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you come?… — Thor Heyerdahl
I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted… — Mitch Albom
It's a coffee cup." She could hear the irritation in her own voice. "I know it's a coffee cup." "I can't wait till you draw… — Cassandra Clare
Watching him was like opening the door to a siniging telegram; you know it's supposed to be entertaining, but you can't get beyond the sad… — David Sedaris
Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the total could fill a suitcase. Every single… — Ava Gardner
I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately. — Mark Twain

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