Christopher Morley Quotes

1890–1957, American Novelist, Journalist, Poet
quotes
16
topics
12
Origin
Topic
“Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.”
Beauty
“Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
Perseverance
“We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.”
Children
“Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
Success
“The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.”
Enemies
“No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.”
Food and Eating
“My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.”
Verified"Safe and Sane" in Hide and Seek (1920), p. 92 · evidenceTheology
“High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.”
Fashion
“The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”
Poetry and Poets
“There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
VerifiedWhere the Blue Begins (1922) · evidenceSuccess
“God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.”
Creation
“In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.”
Beauty
“I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter.”
Heaven
“Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.”
Dance and Dancing