All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
- Christopher Morley Quote

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 Quote

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
- Christopher Morley Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
- Christopher Morley Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
- Christopher Morley Quote

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
- Christopher Morley Quote

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 Quote

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
- Christopher Morley Quote

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
- Christopher Morley Quote

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
- Christopher Morley Quote

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
- Christopher Morley Quote

Only the sinner has the right to preach.
- Christopher Morley Quote

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
- Christopher Morley Quote

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 continually be part of unanimity.
- Christopher Morley Quote

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
- Christopher Morley Quote

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
- Christopher Morley Quote

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

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
- Christopher Morley Quote

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
- Christopher Morley Quote

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

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
- Christopher Morley Quote

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up.
- Christopher Morley Quote

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

Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
- Christopher Morley Quote