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 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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• 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 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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• Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

  Christopher Morley

  Friendship, Fashion, Growing Up

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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 plural of spouse is spice.

  Christopher Morley

  Funny, Humor, Spices

  Christopher Morley (1935). “Morley's Magnum”

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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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• 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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• Only the sinner has the right to preach.

  Christopher Morley

  Literature, Sinner

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• The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Wedding, Locks

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• Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

  Christopher Morley

  Add, Starting

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• Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

  Christopher Morley

  Teacher, Good Man, Unhappy

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

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

  Christopher Morley

  Funny, Life, Witty

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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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• Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

  Christopher Morley

  New York, Cities, Literature

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

  Christopher Morley

  Motivation, Business, Inspiration

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• The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Ideas, Political

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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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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• Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

  Christopher Morley

  Life, Travel, Men

  Thunder on the Left ch. 14 (1925)

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• Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

  Christopher Morley

  Wise, Dog, Dark

  Christopher Morley (1944). “The Middle Kingdom: Poems, 1929-1944”, [New York] : Harcourt, Brace

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