Quotes by Christopher Morley

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

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

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

The trouble with wedlock is that theres not enough wed and too much lock.

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

“Das sogenannte gute Buch gibt es nicht. (...) Ein Buch, das aus meiner Sicht gut ist, ist für Sie vielleicht ohne jeden Wert. (...) Niemand ist so dankbar wie der Mensch, dem man genau das Buch gegeben hat, das seine Seele brauchte, obgleich er es nicht wusste.”

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