April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. — Christopher Morley April Copy Share Image
How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. — Christopher Morley Anger Copy Share Image
We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up — Christopher Morley Bad luck Copy Share Image
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. — Christopher Morley Courage Copy Share Image
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily. — Christopher Morley Book Copy Share Image
Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me,… — Christopher Morley Comedy Copy Share Image
There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it.… — Christopher Morley Decorum 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 Book Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the… — Christopher Morley Dinner Copy Share Image
“It's funny how we hate to face realities. I knew a commuter once who rode in town every day on the 8.13.… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“The human yearning for innocent pastime is a pathetic thing, come to think about it. It shows what a desperately grim thing… — Christopher Morley Desire Copy Share Image
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. — Christopher Morley Book Copy Share Image
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion… They begin haphazard. — Christopher Morley Fashion Copy Share Image
When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept… — Christopher Morley Abraham Copy Share Image
“What absurd victims of contrary desires we are! If a man is settled in one place he yearns to wander; when he… — Christopher Morley Desire 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 Adventure Copy Share Image
“A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third… — Christopher Morley Books 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 Book Copy Share Image
Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke… — Christopher Morley Blessed Copy Share Image
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something… — Christopher Morley Books Copy Share Image
Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and… — Christopher Morley Certainty Copy Share Image
Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact. — Christopher Morley Facts Copy Share Image
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty. — Christopher Morley Feminism Copy Share Image
“Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us.” — Christopher Morley Great things Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude. — Christopher Morley Blessed Copy Share Image
One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings. — Christopher Morley Being human Copy Share Image
“The people in books become more real to you than any one in actual life.” — Christopher Morley Actual life 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
We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up. — Christopher Morley Bad luck Copy Share Image
The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is. — Christopher Morley Corner Copy Share Image
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does” — Christopher Morley Animal Copy Share Image
No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention. — Christopher Morley Attention Copy Share Image
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late? — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
