Christopher Morley Quotes
- The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
- The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
- Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
- No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
- 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.
- 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.
- My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
- People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
- The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
- All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
- All students can learn.
- We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
- It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
- New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
- Only the sinner has the right to preach.
- The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
- Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
- Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
- 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…
- There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.