Christopher Morley
» Beauty » “Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.”
» Beauty » “In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.”
» Children » “We’ve had bad luck with our kids — they’ve all grown up.”
» Cities and City Life » “New York, the nation’s thyroid gland.”
» Creation » “God made man merely to hear some praise of what he’d done on those Five Days.”
» Dance and Dancing » “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.”
» Enemies » “The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.”
» Fashion » “High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.”
» Food and Eating » “No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.”
» Heaven » “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.”
» Life and Living » “Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.”
» Perseverance » “Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
» Poetry and Poets » “The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”
» Success » “Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.”
» Success » “There is only one success — to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
» Theology » “My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.”
