Christopher Morley Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Education, Book

• 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

• 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

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

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Real, Educational

• There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Heaven, Earth

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.17, Melville House

• Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

  Christopher Morley

  Running, Book, Science

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.90, Melville House

• What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Helping, Virtue

• 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

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

  Christopher Morley

  Country, Book, Needs

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

• The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Winning, Years

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.11, Melville House

• A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Doctors, People

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.9, Melville House

• Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Errors, Hunger

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.10, Melville House

• The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

  Christopher Morley

  Kindness, Book, Lovely

  Christopher Morley (1933). “Christopher Morley's omnibus: an excursion among the books of Christopher Morley”

• There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest

  Christopher Morley

  Falling In Love, Real, Book

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

• They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Library, Needs

• We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Soul, Special

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

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