Christopher Morley

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

Christopher Morley

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

Christopher Morley

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

It’s in books that most of us learn how splendidly worth-while life is.

Christopher Morley

Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man; they mark us off from the brutes.

Christopher Morley

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

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.

Christopher Morley

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going.

Christopher Morley

Read every day something no one else is reading.Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

Christopher Morley