Telegram Quotes

• 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 anything. Maybe it was yesterday.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Telegram

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

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Telephone
  • Inform
  • Telegram

• The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.

  

  Don Henley The Eagles
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Things

• Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Night
  • Winston Churchill
  • Pygmalion

• We found letters at the house we bought from a sailor to his wife who lived in the house. He went down to the Caribbean on this trader vessel, bringing down salted fish. There would be handwritten letters, but also telegrams, saying which ports he was in. And he'd be gone for three months. That was just the way it is.

  

  Michael Winter
  • House
  • Letters
  • Bringing

• My book is written, as befits such easy material, in merciless telegram style ("Axiom," "Definition," "Theorem," "Proof," occasionally "Preliminary Remark")... I hope I have written this book in such a way that a normal student can read it in two days. And then (since he already knows the formal rules from school) he may forget its contents.

  

  Edmund Landau
  • Style
  • Rules
  • Written