Quotes by Morley, Christopher

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

Morley, Christopher on enemies   

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

Morley, Christopher on fashion
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"No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention."

Morley, Christopher on food and eating
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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."

Morley, Christopher on heaven   

"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."

Morley, Christopher on life
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"Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."

Morley, Christopher on perseverance
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"The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."

Morley, Christopher on poetry and poets
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"There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way."

Morley, Christopher on success
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"Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting."

Morley, Christopher on success   

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

Morley, Christopher on beauty
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"Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse."

Morley, Christopher on beauty   

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

Morley, Christopher on theology   

"We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up."

Morley, Christopher on children   

"New York, the nation's thyroid gland."

Morley, Christopher on life   

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

Morley, Christopher on creation   

"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."

Morley, Christopher on dance and dancing
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"There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. "

Morley, Christopher on uncategorised   

"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. "

Morley, Christopher on individuality