25 Quotes By Christopher Morley


A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley on anger

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 on beauty

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

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

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley on best

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 on best

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
Christopher Morley on communication

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Christopher Morley on courage

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley on failure

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

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 on god

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

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 on humor

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

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley on life

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
Christopher Morley on motivational

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

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher Morley on pet

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley on sad