Christopher Morley Quotes
May 5, 1890 - March 28, 1957
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Philadelphia was the first city to foresee the advantages of a Federal constitution and oatmeal as a breakfast food.
Travels in Philadelphia (1920) 
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More Christopher Morley Quotes
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 Haunted Bookshop (1919)
The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.
Christopher Morley— Travels in Philadelphia (1920)
We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.
Christopher Morley— On Visiting Bookshops, Pipefuls (1921)
My theology, briefly,Is that the UniverseWas DictatedBut not Signed.
Christopher Morley— "Safe and Sane" in Hide and Seek (1920), p. 92
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
Christopher Morley— Where the Blue Begins (1922)
There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley— Where the Blue Begins (1922)
Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?
Christopher Morley— "Contribution to a Contribution" as quoted in The Twin Bedside Anthology (1946) by Charles Lee, p. 183
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
Christopher Morley— John Mistletoe (1931)
A million hearts here wait our call, All naked to our distant speech I wish that I could ring them all And have some welcome news for each.
Christopher Morley— Christopher Morley, Of a Telephone Directory, in The Rocking Horse.
"Jerry," said Roger, "You are a upas tree. Your shadow is poisonous!"
Christopher Morley— Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop.
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
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher Morley— American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet (1890 - 1957)
It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
Christopher Morley— The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
