Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
beauty lonely pain
Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
beauty faith inspiration
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
life travel men
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
spring thinking light
April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
kindness book lovely
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.
railroads gongs critics
A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
witty blessed thinking
Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.
media mind afternoon
The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.
fake-people people enemy
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
literature sinner
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
everlasting fascinating corners
The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
christian anxiety bears
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
students
All students can learn.
friendship fashion growing-up
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.