Christopher Morley quotes

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

— Christopher Morley

“All students can learn.”

— Christopher Morley

“If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.”

— Christopher Morley

“We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.”

— Christopher Morley

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

— Christopher Morley

“Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.”

— Christopher Morley

“New York, the nation's thyroid gland.”

— Christopher Morley

“Only the sinner has the right to preach.”

— Christopher Morley

“The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.”

— Christopher Morley

“Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?”

— Christopher Morley

“Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.”

— Christopher Morley

“If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.”

— Christopher Morley