228 Quotes by Christopher Morley

Beware of the conversationalist who adds “in other words.” He is merely starting afresh.

The trouble with wedlock is that there’s not enough wed and too much lock.

I have always suffered from the feeling that it’s better to read a good book than to write a poor one; and I’ve done so much mixed reading in my time that my mind is full of echoes and voices of better men. But this book I’m worrying about now really deserves to be written, I think, for it has a message of its own.

We call a child’s mind ‘small’ simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.

Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us.

I think reading a good book makes one modest. When you see the marvelous insight into human nature which a truly great book shows, it is bound to make you feel small – like looking at the Big Dipper on a clear night, or seeing the winter sunrise when you go out to collect the morning eggs. And anything that makes you feel small is mighty good for you.

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

Gissing lived alone.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be “Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!