Christopher Morley Quotes

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Christopher Morley

Profession : Author

Birth : May 5, 1890

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

Christopher Morley

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

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

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

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

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

Christopher Morley

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

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