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

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In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
- Christopher Morley

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It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
- Christopher Morley

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Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
- Christopher Morley

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There are three ingredients in the good life; learning, earning and yearning.
- Christopher Morley

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Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
- Christopher Morley

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The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
- Christopher Morley

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There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.
- Christopher Morley

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There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down.
- Christopher Morley

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There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.
- Christopher Morley

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A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
- Christopher Morley

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And of all man’s felicities The very subtlest one, say I, Is when for the first time he sees His hearthfire smoke against the sky.
- Christopher Morley

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Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have.
- 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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Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
- Christopher Morley

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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
- Christopher Morley

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The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
- Christopher Morley

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We’ve had bad luck with our kids they’ve all grown up.
- Christopher Morley

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The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
- Christopher Morley

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For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.
- Christopher Morley

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And of all man’s felicities The very subtlest one, say I.
- Christopher Morley