Christopher Morley

The man who never in his life has washed the dishes with his wife or polished up the silver plate – He still is largely celibate.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.

Christopher Morley

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Christopher Morley

A girl of 19 doesn’t react towards things. She explodes.

Christopher Morley

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 that’s all forehead doesn’t amount to much.

Christopher Morley

A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Christopher Morley

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

Christopher Morley

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

Christopher Morley

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

Christopher Morley