Christopher Morley quotes

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. (Christopher Morley)
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. View quote
Christopher Morley
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 be always part of unanimity. View quote
Christopher Morley
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. View quote
Christopher Morley
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. View quote
Christopher Morley
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. View quote
Christopher Morley
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. View quote
Christopher Morley
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful, but the beauty is grim. View quote
Christopher Morley
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. View quote
Christopher Morley
We've had bad luck with children they've all grown up. View quote
Christopher Morley
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. (Christopher Morley)
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. View quote
Christopher Morley
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. View quote
Christopher Morley
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. View quote
Christopher Morley
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. View quote
Christopher Morley
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. View quote
Christopher Morley
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late? View quote
Christopher Morley
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people. View quote
Christopher Morley
Only the sinner has the right to preach. View quote
Christopher Morley
God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days. View quote
Christopher Morley
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. (Christopher Morley)
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. View quote
Christopher Morley
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. View quote
Christopher Morley
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. View quote
Christopher Morley
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. View quote
Christopher Morley