Christopher Morley's Quotes

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

Christopher Morley

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Christopher Morley

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

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

Christopher Morley

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

Christopher Morley

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

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

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

Christopher Morley

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

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

Christopher Morley