Christopher Morley Quotes

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• There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1922). “WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS”

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• Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

  Christopher Morley

  Wisdom, Silly, Reading

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House

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• There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

  Christopher Morley

  Wisdom, Communication, Advice

  Christopher Morley (1925). “Safety pins: and other essays”

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

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Real, Educational

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• The plural of spouse is spice.

  Christopher Morley

  Funny, Humor, Spices

  Christopher Morley (1935). “Morley's Magnum”

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

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.75, Booklassic

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• No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

  Christopher Morley

  Dog, Appreciation, Silly

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• It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

  Christopher Morley

  Running, Science, Glasses

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.12, Melville House

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

  Christopher Morley

  Funny, Fashion, Women

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• Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

  Christopher Morley

  Life, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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• One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

  Christopher Morley

  Humanity, Being Human, Penalties

  Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”

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• A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

  Christopher Morley

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

  Christopher Morley

  Real, Book, Love Life

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.24, Booklassic

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• Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

  Christopher Morley

  God, Heart, Men

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• 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.

  Christopher Morley

  Order, Literature, Parades

  Christopher Morley “Kitty Foyle”

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• Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

  Christopher Morley

  Motivation, Business, Inspiration

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• God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Creation Of Man, Done

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

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House

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• A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

  Christopher Morley

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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

  Christopher Morley

  Courage, Art, Doors

  Christopher Morley (1925). “Forty-four Essays by Christopher Morley”

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

  Christopher Morley

  Dog, Men, Puppy

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.137, Melville House

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• My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

  Christopher Morley

  God, Philosophy, Mathematics

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.276, Melville House

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• There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Falling In Love, Real

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.213, Melville House

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

  Christopher Morley

  Add, Starting

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