Best Quotes by Christopher Morley (Top 10)
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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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
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
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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
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley
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No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher Morley
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No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
Christopher Morley
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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
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More Christopher Morley Quotes
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The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Christopher Morley
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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
Christopher Morley
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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.
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
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Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
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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.
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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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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.
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Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
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We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
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The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
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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.
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
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One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.
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A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
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