Christopher Morley Quotes

American - Author | May 5, 1890 - March 28, 1957

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

Christopher Morley

BeautyHeartManSecretAnswers

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.

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PeopleLovedSayTelephoneLeft

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Christopher Morley

RightPreachSinnerOnly

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Christopher Morley

PeopleThinkingMechanicalImagine

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

Christopher Morley

FuturePeopleAlwaysEnemiesVery

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

Christopher Morley

WeddingEnoughToo MuchTroubleLock

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

Christopher Morley

PurposeMindThinkingDoingReal

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

HumorPerspectiveImportantEveryday

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Christopher Morley

BearNeverHardestMisfortunesCame

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley

UniverseTheologyDictatedSigned

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

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GodManDonePraiseDaysMade

All students can learn.

Christopher Morley

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