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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Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Christopher Morley

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Christopher Morley

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

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

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

That's what this country needs -- more books!

Christopher Morley

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

Christopher Morley

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

Christopher Morley

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes lette...

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A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amount to much.

Christopher Morley

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. - Roger Mifflin

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

You sell a man a book, you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Christopher Morley

nessuno come un cane sa apprezzare la straordinarietà della tua conversazione.

Christopher Morley

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

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.

Christopher Morley

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, 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

Author Bio

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