Christopher Morley Quotes - Page 2

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• I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.

  Christopher Morley

  God, Heaven, Mind

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

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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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• The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Wedding, Locks

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

  Christopher Morley

  Friendship, Fashion, Growing Up

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

  Christopher Morley

  Fake People, People, Enemy

  Christopher Morley “Kitty Foyle”

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• April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

  Christopher Morley

  Easter, Spring, Thinking

  Christopher Morley (1931). “John Mistletoe”, Doubleday, Doran

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• Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.

  Christopher Morley

  Food, Animal, Thinking

  Christopher Morley (2007). “Chimneysmoke”, p.52, Wildside Press LLC

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• The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

  Christopher Morley

  Christian, Anxiety, Literature

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• 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

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

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Helping, Virtue

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• If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

  Christopher Morley

  Reminding Yourself, Reminding, Ifs

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1945). “Morley's Variety: A SELECTION FROM THE WRITINGS OF CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, MADE BY LOUIS GREENFIELD, AND PUBLISHED IN CLEVELAND AND NEW YORK BY THE WORLD PUBLISHING COMPANY”

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• Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

  Christopher Morley

  Gideon, Too Late, Literature

  "The Twin Bedside Anthology" by Charles Lee, (p. 183), 1946.

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

  Christopher Morley

  Beautiful, Cities, Mad

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

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• Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

  Christopher Morley

  Laughter, Humor, Two

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

  Christopher Morley

  Life, Travel, Men

  Thunder on the Left ch. 14 (1925)

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• 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

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• We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

  Christopher Morley

  Birthday, Children, Kids

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• America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

  Christopher Morley

  Country, America, Government

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

  Christopher Morley

  Wise, Dog, Dark

  Christopher Morley (1944). “The Middle Kingdom: Poems, 1929-1944”, [New York] : Harcourt, Brace

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• In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

  Christopher Morley

  Beauty, Faith, Fall

  Christopher Morley, Ken Kalfus, Walter Jack Duncan (1990). “Christopher Morley's Philadelphia”, p.38, Fordham Univ Press

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• Only the sinner has the right to preach.

  Christopher Morley

  Literature, Sinner

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• When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

  Christopher Morley

  Education, Latin, America

  "Point of View" l. 1 (1923)

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• If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

  Christopher Morley

  Love, Friendship, People

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• 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

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• Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

  Christopher Morley

  Decision, Choices, Finding Yourself

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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