Christopher Morley Quotes

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.

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

When 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.

New York the nation's thyroid gland.

A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'

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

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

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

If we all 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 tell them that they loved them.

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

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

My theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.

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

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

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

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

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

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried unresisting with the current. They float through easy days. They live unquestioning in the moment.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained Possibility.

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

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

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.

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

When 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.

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

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

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

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

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

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

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

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

If we all 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 tell them that they loved them.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

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

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.