Christopher Morley Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.”

“If we discovered that we only had 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.”

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

“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.”

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

“All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.”

“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.”

“The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.”

“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”

“From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.”