KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Christopher Morley Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Christopher Morley

Showing 11-20 of 42 Quotes by Christopher Morley

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

~Christopher Morley

Topics: Able Life Only Own Spend Success Way Your

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

~Christopher Morley

Topics: Books Doing Mind Own Purpose Real Thinking Trap

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Ask God Had Him Matter Met Million Mind Questions Seem

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

~Christopher Morley

Topics: Always Bicycle Novelists Poets Should Surely Vehicle

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Beauty Behind Ever Fleeting Gift Grief Leaves Lonely Mind Never Pain Plain Shadow She Souvenir Visitor Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Christopher Morley

Topics: Been Forehead Had Heels High High Heels Invented Kissed Were Who Woman

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

~Christopher Morley

Topics: Foreign Foreign Language Language Life Life Is A Men

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

~Christopher Morley

Topics: Booth Calling Discovered Every Five Had Left Loved Minutes Occupied Only Other People Say Telephone Them Wanted Would

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

~Christopher Morley

Topics: Book Glue Him Ink Life Man New New Life Paper Sell Whole You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Affairs Awareness Everyday Humor Important Intellectual Kinds Most Oddly Others Perhaps Perspective Really Sense Some Some Things Things Two

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 5th, 1890

Died: March 28th, 1957

Links

Find Christopher Morley on Amazon

Related Authors

Leo Buscaglia
Joseph Campbell
Frederick Douglass
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Zig Ziglar

Popular Authors

Alexander Graham Bell Dwight D. Eisenhower Euripides Lyndon B. Johnson Sophia Loren Christopher Mccandless Gordon Ramsay Swami Vivekananda

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes

1861 - Walter Rauschenbusch

1880 - Damon Runyon

1895 - Buster Keaton

1903 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner

1914 - Brendan Gill

1916 - George Sidney

1918 - Kenichi Fukui

1923 - Charlton Heston

1928 - Alvin Toffler

Birthdays on October 4th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Birthday Courage Education Fitness Humor Thanksgiving Time Work