Quotes by Christopher Morley

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Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.
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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder ...

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A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that you...

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THIS SHOP IS HAUNTED by the ghosts Of all great literature, in hosts; We sell no fakes or trashes. Lovers of books are welcome here, No clerks will babble in your ear, Please smoke--but don't drop ashes! ---- Browse as long as you like. Prices of all...

Christopher Morley

There are only about 30,000 really important books in the world. I suppose about 5,000 of them were written in the English language, and 5,000 more have been translated. - Roger Mifflin

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We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He thinks that every public library should be dynamited. Another thinks that moving pictures will destroy the book trade. What rot! Surely everything that aro...

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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

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Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To spread good books about, to sow them on fertile minds, to propagate understanding and a carefulness of life and beauty, isn't that h...

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Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man; they mark us off from the brutes.

Christopher Morley

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Christopher Morley

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

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Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that.

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

Christopher Morley

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

Christopher Morley

Lord!" he said, "when you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue — you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night — there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real...

Christopher Morley

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameChristopher Morley
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
  • BornMay 5, 1890
  • DiedMarch 28, 1957
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter