Christopher Morley Quotes
Top 97 wise famous quotes and sayings by Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit when we read a good book.
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.
Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.
They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.
The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
That's the kind of thing, if you get to thinking about, that could wake you in the middle of night. I didn't want my nights to have any middles.
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about it already.
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.
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.
The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them.
Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.
Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.
Calling us men doesn't make us men. No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know at least one good book.
There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it.
That's the kind of thing that will wake you up in the middle of the night. I don't want to have a night with any middle
It always seemed to me that [Henry James] had a kind of rush of words to the head and never stopped to sort them out properly.
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion ... They begin haphazard.
Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.
A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.
The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.
It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
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.
And the dog by the fender stretched himself out in the luxuriant vacancy of mind only known to dogs surrounded by a happy group of their friends.
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
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.
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.