Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley (5 May 189028 March 1957) was an American journalist, novelist, and poet.

18 Quotes

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

Christopher Morley

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

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

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Christopher Morley

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

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

Christopher Morley

Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley

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.

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