Quotes by Christopher Morley

About Christopher Morley:

Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.
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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

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.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

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

Christopher Morley

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Christopher Morley

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

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.

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 continually be part of unanimity.

Christopher Morley

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Christopher Morley

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

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

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

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.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

Author Bio

  • NameChristopher Morley
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
  • BornMay 5, 1890
  • DiedMarch 28, 1957
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter