Telephone Quote by Paul Auster

“There is something compulsive about a telephone. The gadget-ridden man of our age loves it, loathes it, and is afraid of it. But he…

— Raymond Chandler

“Mark my words. The telephone will never become a practical necessity.”

— Lisa Harris

“The General was using the telephone, forcing his fierce personality along the wires to bully disbelieving clerks at the far end.”

— Peter Dickinson

“I would have used the telephone on the Shabbat even though it's forbidden, and God wouldn't have held it against me because he's probably…

— Barbara Honigmann

“The telephone was not yet at that date as commonly in use as it is today. And yet habit requires so short a time…

— Marcel Proust

“He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general. "It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels".”

— Patrick Carman

“Romesh Chand was a man who did not believe in telephones, in the necessity for telephones,”

— Paul Scott

“Once there was an elephant, Who tried to use the telephant-- No! No! I mean an elephone, Who tired to use the telephone.”

— Anonymous

“Do you know what is our problem? We know everything about our weapons, but we know nothing about how to use a telephone.”

— Asne Seierstad

“Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakable‒but, as I was reminded by these writers, it can be destroyed by a single phone call.”

— Graham Greene

“Teleus, who had faced his failures and his death and the death of his friend and accepted his own salvation at the hand of…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“By this time he had discovered that his neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism,…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis