228 Quotes by 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.

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

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

nessuno come un cane sa apprezzare la straordinarietà della tua conversazione.

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

Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.

Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.