Christopher Morley – 17 Quotes

17 Quotes by Christopher Morley

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

– Christopher Morley

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

– Christopher Morley

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

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

– Christopher Morley

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

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

– Christopher Morley

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

– Christopher Morley

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

– Christopher Morley

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

– Christopher Morley

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

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

– 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

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

– Christopher Morley

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

– Christopher Morley

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

– Christopher Morley

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

– Christopher Morley

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

– Christopher Morley