Dead Quote by Nadine Gordimer

If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of…

— Mark Twain

This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world……

— Harry S. Truman

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

— Alexander Graham Bell

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…

— Robert Pinget

In the First World War, people would be receiving letters from loved ones who had been dead for weeks, and they would not know…

— Margaret Atwood

The headline is the most important element in most advertisements. It is the telegram which decides the reader whether to read the copy.

— David Ogilvy

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

— Robert Rauschenberg

I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press…

— William DeVries

“Oh, God,” Magnus said. “They’re dead. They’re all dead.”

— Cassandra Clare

“A girl who could send tear-stained telegrams.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every…

— James Gleick

Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It…

— Mary Douglas