The quotations of

Christopher Morley

American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet

1890–1957

23 quotes, most often on Success, Happiness and Women.

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.
- Love
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.
- Beauty
There is only one success⁠—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Where the Blue Begins (1922)
- Success
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
- Happiness
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.
Inward Ho! (1923) Chapter “That One might almost say”
- Humor
In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
- Beauty
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
- Age
- Happiness
Men talk of “finding God,” but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
- God
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.
Parnassus on Wheels (1917)
- Reading
We’ve had bad luck with our kids⁠—they’ve all grown up.
- Children
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
- Men
- Women
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
- Thinking
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Thunder on the Left (1925), ch. 14
- Life & Death
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
- Science
- Technology

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