Top 42 Quotes by Christopher Morley

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.