Christopher Morley Quotes (59 Quotes)


    There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.

    Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?

    Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

    People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.



    We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

    I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

    There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

    My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

    Informal is what women always say they're going to be and never are


    There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner


    It lies not in our power to love or hate,
    For will in us is over-rul'd by fate.

    The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

    From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

    If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

    Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

    Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

    There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published


    The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

    Lord when you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

    Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard.


    Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.


    High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

    Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty

    Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.


    If you have to keep reminding yourself of something, perhaps it isn't so.

    Where both deliberate, the love is slight:
    Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight.

    It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

    Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

    When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.


    Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

    No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

    In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.


    Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate.

    There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

    Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchained, A madness well restrained.

    Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

    The greatest poem ever knownIs one all poets have outgrownThe poetry, innate, untold,Of being only four years old.


    The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas

    Heaven is not built of country seats; But little queer suburban streets.



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