Robert Morley Quotes

• To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

  Robert Morley

  Happiness, Falling In Love, Love You

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• To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

  Robert Morley

  Happiness, Falling In Love, Love You

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• The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.

  Robert Morley

  Country, People, France

  1974 A MusingMorley,'France and the French'.

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• The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

  Robert Morley

  Long, Tourism, Tourists

  "Death of Baron De Kalb" by Benjamin Franklin Ells, 1849.

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• When I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of the mess I am in now, he thought for a long time, and I didn't care much for his answer. 'Yes,' he said. 'Death would help.'

  Robert Morley

  Long, Helping, Said

  "The best of Robert Morley".

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• The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

  Robert Morley

  Sports, Men, Balls

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• If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.

  Robert Morley

  People, Trouble, Culinary

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• Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.

  Robert Morley

  School, Men, Bully

  Robert Morley, Sewell Stokes (1967). “Robert Morley: a reluctant autobiography”

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• A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.

  Robert Morley

  Men, Bed, Should

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• A party: one arrives long after it's started, and one's going to leave long before it's over.

  Robert Morley

  Party, Long

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• I don’t work. I merely inflict myself on the public.

  Robert Morley

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.

  Robert Morley

  Funny, Dog, Training

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• COUGHS. These are symptoms, not diseases. Take them to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.

  Robert Morley

  Doctors, Giving, Worry

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• Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

  Robert Morley

  Children, Business, Training

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• If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by a beautiful lady, plunge to the hilt.

  Robert Morley

  Beautiful, Horse, Children

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• There is little to compare with the thrill of standing next to the creature in the winner's enclosure avoiding his hooves and receiving the congratulations of the press, your trainer and friends who backed it. What makes the experience so satisfying is that you, the owner, have had absolutely nothing to do with the horse winning.

  Robert Morley

  Horse, Congratulations, Winning

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• I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends, happy to be with my wife and family, but the high spot of every day is when I first catch a glimpse of myself in the shaving mirror.

  Robert Morley

  Mirrors, Self, Wife

  Robert Morley (1980). “Morley Matters”, London : Robson Books

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• If the critics were always right we should be in deep trouble.

  Robert Morley

  Trouble, Should, Critics

  Robert Morley, Sewell Stokes (1966). “Robert Morley: 'responsible gentleman'”

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• We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.

  Robert Morley

  Talking, Silence, Mind

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• I have never willingly chased a ball.

  Robert Morley

  Baseball, Balls

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• It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

  Robert Morley

  Men, Theatre, Essentials

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• Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.

  Robert Morley

  Men, Buried, Fats

  Toledo Blade, August 20, 1978.

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• Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."

  Robert Morley

  Add, Public Speaking

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