Christopher Morley

American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

Christopher Darlington Morleywas an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.

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About the Christopher Morley

Christopher Darlington Morleywas an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.

42 Quotes by Christopher Morley

  1. 1.

    The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  2. 2.

    Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  3. 3.

    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.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  4. 4.

    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.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  5. 5.

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

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  6. 6.

    We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  7. 7.

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

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  8. 8.

    A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  9. 9.

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

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  10. 10.

    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.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  11. 11.

    Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  12. 12.

    Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  13. 13.

    The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  14. 14.

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

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  15. 15.

    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.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  16. 16.

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

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  17. 17.

    All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  18. 18.

    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.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  19. 19.

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

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  20. 20.

    Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  21. 21.

    All students can learn.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  22. 22.

    God made man merely to hear some praise of what he’d done on those Five Days.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  23. 23.

    If we discovered that we only had 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.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  24. 24.

    Only the sinner has the right to preach.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  25. 25.

    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.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  26. 26.

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

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  27. 27.

    The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  28. 28.

    There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  29. 29.

    New York, the nation’s thyroid gland.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  30. 30.

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

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  31. 31.

    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.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  32. 32.

    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

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  33. 33.

    A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  34. 34.

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

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  35. 35.

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

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  36. 36.

    No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  37. 37.

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

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  38. 38.

    The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  39. 39.

    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.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  40. 40.

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

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  41. 41.

    Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

  42. 42.

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

    Christopher Morley

    American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet