phone quotes

   Phone for the fish knives,Norman As Cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I must have things daintily served.

- SirJohn Betjeman
  A Few Late Chrysanthemums,'How To Get On In Society'.

What really knocksme out isa book that, whenyou'reall done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.

-J(erome) D(avid) Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.3.

The Rev St John Froude put the phone down thoughtfully. The notion that he was sharing the house with a disembodied and recently murdered woman was not one that he had wanted to put to his caller. His reputation for eccentricity was already sufficiently widespread without adding to it.

-Tom (Thomas Ridley) Sharpe
  Wilt, ch.19.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

-James Grover Thurber
  Cartoon caption, in the NewYorker, 5 Jun.

You can see in pantomime the puppets fumbling with their slips of paper†seethem pickup their phone†see the noiseless, ceaseless capital of memoranda, in touch with Calcutta, in touch with Reykjavik, and always fooling with something.

- E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
  On office windows at twilight. Here Is NewYork.