Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley

17 quotes

Christopher Morley is an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet whose words have traveled far beyond their original audience. Christopher Morley's observations on Beauty are as sharp as their thoughts on Life, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Browse 22 quotes by Christopher Morley that cover ground from Beauty, Life, Best, Wedding, and Success. Readers often gravitate to this one: "The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people."

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

— Christopher Morley

Communication

All Quotes by Christopher Morley

“It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.”

— Christopher Morley

Nature

“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”

— Christopher Morley

Pet

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

— Christopher Morley

Anger

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

— Christopher Morley

Beauty

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

— Christopher Morley

Best

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

— Christopher Morley

Future

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

— Christopher Morley

Wedding

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

— Christopher Morley

Good

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

— Christopher Morley

Beauty

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

— Christopher Morley

Life

“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

God

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

— Christopher Morley

Communication

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

— Christopher Morley

Courage

“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

Beauty

“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”

— Christopher Morley

Motivational

“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

Best

“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

Humor