Christopher Morley quotes

Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet known for his wit and literary versatility. His works often combined humor with keen social observations and included the popular novel "Parnassus on Wheels." He contributed greatly to American literary culture and co-founded the Saturday Review of Literature. Here are 76 of his quotes:

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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 be always part of unanimity.

Christopher Morley

No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Christopher Morley

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Christopher Morley

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Christopher Morley

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley

We've had bad luck with children they've all grown up.

Christopher Morley

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

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

If we discovered that we had only 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

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Christopher Morley

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Christopher Morley

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley

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

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Christopher Morley