Christopher Morley Quotes
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing ...
Show MorePrinter's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, ...
Show MoreA doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. A...
Show MoreLiving in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the ...
Show MoreWe have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He think...
Show MoreThere is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it wa...
Show MoreNight, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained ...
Show MoreEven the most innocent of men's affairs seem doomed to cause suffering. Pushing the lawnmower throug...
Show MoreSuppose someone tried to write your biography. What nonsense! How much would he know? Would he know ...
Show MorePoetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the s...
Show MoreBig shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him ...
Show MoreContinually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution ... is as far as possib...
Show MoreHeavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colos...
Show MoreThe unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of id...
Show MoreWhen you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell hi...
Show MoreWe've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
That's what this country needs -- more books!
A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: ...
Show MoreRead, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
Show MoreThere is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell hi...
Show MoreThere are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried unresisting with the curre...
Show MoreIf we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every tele...
Show MoreThe world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Ne...
Show MoreIf we all discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every tele...
Show MoreAct like you expect to get into the end zone.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when ...
Show MoreHumor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
Show MoreNo man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention.
Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns and the probl...
Show MoreMy theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the b...
Show MoreBeauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves...
Show MoreWe’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinkin...
Show MoreThey go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some boo...
Show MoreHigh heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
There are three ingredients in the good life learning earning and yearning.
A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere ...
Show MoreIf we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephon...
Show MoreThe courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning earning and yearning.
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.
New York the nation's thyroid gland.
New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City.New York is the city of envy, office work, and...
Show MoreThere is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
