Quotes by Christopher Morley

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

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.

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

Lifes a lot different from what people pretend. Thats why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now Im beginning to guess that everybodys like that.

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

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention.

A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story thats all forehead doesnt amount to much.

Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.

Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained Possibility.

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, isnt that high enough mission for a man?

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

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

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

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

They go in not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

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 arouses peoples minds, that makes them alert and questing, increases their appetite for books. - Roger Mifflin

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City.New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness….There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory inTheir skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

New York, the nations thyroid gland.

New York the nations thyroid gland.

A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: NYawk NYawk.