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

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

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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

  Wisdom, Silly, Reading

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House

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

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Success, Good Life

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.75, Booklassic

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

  Christopher Morley

  Dog, Appreciation, Silly

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• The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Real, Educational

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• There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

  Christopher Morley

  Wisdom, Communication, Advice

  Christopher Morley (1925). “Safety pins: and other essays”

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• It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

  Christopher Morley

  Running, Science, Glasses

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.12, Melville House

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

  Christopher Morley

  Funny, Fashion, Women

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• Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

  Christopher Morley

  Life, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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

  Christopher Morley

  God, Philosophy, Mathematics

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.276, Melville House

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• One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

  Christopher Morley

  Humanity, Being Human, Penalties

  Christopher Morley (1920). “Hide and Seek”

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• A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

  Christopher Morley

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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• Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

  Christopher Morley

  Motivation, Business, Inspiration

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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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• 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.

  Christopher Morley

  God, Heart, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Order, Literature, Parades

  Christopher Morley “Kitty Foyle”

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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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• When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

  Christopher Morley

  Real, Book, Love Life

  Christopher Morley (2015). “Parnassus On Wheels”, p.24, Booklassic

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• The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.

  Christopher Morley

  Dog, Men, Puppy

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.137, Melville House

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

  Christopher Morley

  Courage, Art, Doors

  Christopher Morley (1925). “Forty-four Essays by 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.

  Christopher Morley

  Running, Book, Science

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.90, Melville House

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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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