Christopher Morley

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

— Christopher Morley

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

— Christopher Morley

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

— Christopher Morley

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

— Christopher Morley

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

— Christopher Morley

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning. A man should be learning as he goes; and he…

— Christopher Morley

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

— Christopher Morley

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

— Christopher Morley

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

— Christopher Morley

If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would…

— Christopher Morley

The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

— Christopher Morley

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

— Christopher Morley

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

— Christopher Morley

“Calling us men doesn't make us men. No creature on earth has a right to think himself a human being if he doesn't know…

— Christopher Morley

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

— Christopher Morley

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

— Christopher Morley

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something…

— Christopher Morley

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He…

— Christopher Morley

Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of…

— Christopher Morley

“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

“I went to the theatre with the author of a successful play. He insisted on explaining everything. He told me what to…

— Christopher Morley

“Everywhere, as we go about our small business, we must discern the fingerprints of the gigantic plan, the orderly and inexorable routine…

— Christopher Morley

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

— Christopher Morley

I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that…

— Christopher Morley

“What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he…

— Christopher Morley