Christopher Morley Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Christopher Morley

  Gideon, Too Late, Literature

  "The Twin Bedside Anthology" by Charles Lee, (p. 183), 1946.

• Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

  Christopher Morley

  Beauty, Lonely, Pain

• 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

  Girl, Dance, Men

  Kitty Foyle ch. 11 (1939)

• 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”

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

  Christopher Morley

  Beautiful, Cities, Mad

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

• The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

  Christopher Morley

  Christian, Anxiety, Literature

• 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”

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

  Christopher Morley

  Inspirational, Wedding, Locks

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

  Christopher Morley

  Fake People, People, Enemy

  Christopher Morley “Kitty Foyle”

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

  Christopher Morley

  Men, Literature, Violence

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

• New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

  Christopher Morley

  New York, Cities, Literature

• Only the sinner has the right to preach.

  Christopher Morley

  Literature, Sinner

• From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

  Christopher Morley

  Mean, Eye, Literature

  Christopher Morley (1920). “Travels in Philadelphia”

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