228 Quotes by Christopher Morley

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

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

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

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.

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

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.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare.