Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“It's one of the uncanniest things I know to watch a real book on its career―it follows you and follows you and… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue- you sell… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“It's in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.” — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“ON THE RETURN OF A BOOK LENT TO A FRIEND I GIVE humble and hearty thanks for the safe return of this… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. A man should be learning as he goes; and he should be… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
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