228 Quotes by Christopher Morley

That's what this country needs -- more books!

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

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

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

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.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.

There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

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