Quotes of Christopher Morley - somelinesforyou

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

- Christopher Morley

“ Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it. ”

- Christopher Morley

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

- Christopher Morley

“ There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it. ”

- Christopher Morley

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

- Christopher Morley

“ We’ve had bad luck with our kids – they’ve all grown up. ”

- Christopher Morley

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

- Christopher Morley

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

- Christopher Morley

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

- Christopher Morley

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

- Christopher Morley

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

- Christopher Morley

“ High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace. ”

- Christopher Morley

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

- Christopher Morley

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

- Christopher Morley

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

- Christopher Morley

“ When you sell a man a book you don't sell 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. ”

- Christopher Morley

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

- Christopher Morley

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

- Christopher Morley

“ That's what this country needs more books! ”

- Christopher Morley

“ The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ 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 destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ When you sell a man a book you don't sell 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. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win. ”

- Christopher Morley

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

- Christopher Morley

“ That's what this country needs more books! ”

- Christopher Morley

“ The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ 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 destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win. ”

- Christopher Morley
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