We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive… — Christopher Morley Book Copy Share Image
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas. — Christopher Morley Communication Copy Share Image
Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost… — Christopher Morley Children 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 Book Copy Share Image
Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened. — Christopher Morley Diaries Copy Share Image
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks of others as being excessively human, with all the frailties and crotchets appertaining to that curious condition. But each of… — 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 Book Copy Share Image
“I went to the theatre with the author of a successful play. He insisted on explaining everything. He told me what to… — Christopher Morley Books 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… — 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 Body Copy Share Image
“New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;… — Christopher Morley Babylon 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 Book Copy Share Image
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the… — Christopher Morley Beauty Copy Share Image
America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor… — Christopher Morley America Copy Share Image
“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 Good book Copy Share Image
The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He… — Christopher Morley Celibate Copy Share Image
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where… — Christopher Morley Order Copy Share Image
“The fact that Holmes had earlier lodgings in Montague Street (alongside the British Museum) is forgotten. That was before Watson and we… — Christopher Morley British museum Copy Share Image
The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in… — Christopher Morley Actors Copy Share Image
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem… — Christopher Morley God Copy Share Image
“For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven we inhabit… — Christopher Morley Good book Copy Share Image
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old. — Christopher Morley Childhood 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what… — Christopher Morley Animal Copy Share Image
There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be… — 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
