Christopher Morley Quotes

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

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

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.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

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

There is only one rule for being a good talker – learn to listen.

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

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

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.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.