Christopher Morley

Human beings pay very little attention to what is told them unless they know something about it already.

Christopher Morley

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

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn’t seem to matter.

Christopher Morley

If we discovered that we had only 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.

Christopher Morley

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn’t so.

Christopher Morley

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

Christopher Morley

It’s a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

Christopher Morley

Life’s a lot different from what people pretend. That’s why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I’m beginning to guess that everybody’s like that.

Christopher Morley

Loafing needs no explanation and is its own excuse.

Christopher Morley

Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers.

Christopher Morley