Christopher Morley was a U.S. journalist, poet, editor, novelist and essayist, who rose to prominence in the first half of the 20th century and is regarded as one of the most prominent authors of his era. Morley graduated from Haverford College in 1910 and then studied modern history at New College at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. After completing his education, he returned to the United States and started working for the publishers Doubleday, before becoming the editor of Ladies’ Home Journal in 1917. Later, he became the editor of the Saturday Review of Literature. Later on, he was employed by the Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger as a columnist. His career as a novelist started off in 1917 with the book ‘Parnassus on Wheels’ and he published many books after that. Some of the noted novels written by Morley include ‘The Haunted Bookshop’, ‘Thunder of the Left’, ‘Off the Deep End’, ‘Seacoast of Bohemia’, ‘Swiss Family Manhattan’ and ‘Pipefuls’ among others. His novel ‘Kitty Foyle’ published in 1939 is undoubtedly his most famous work and was also turned into an acclaimed motion picture. Our collection of Morley’s quotes have been taken from his famous poems, works, and writings and. Read on the quotes and sayings by the renowned poet Christopher Morley.
If we discovered that we had only 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.
Christopher Morley
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:
it requires so much attention.
Christopher Morley
There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
Christopher Morley
Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley
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.
Christopher Morley
It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.
Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
Christopher Morley
The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
Christopher Morley
The beauty of being a bookseller is that you don't have to be a literary critic: all you have to do to books is enjoy them.
