Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
fake-people people enemy
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
truth men people
There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.
blessed frailty rectitude
Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.
philosophy rain people
Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.
truth safety hours
Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.
moving thinking people
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
animal thinking dessert
Animal crackers, and cocoa to drink That is the finest of suppers, I think When I'm grown up and can have what I please, I think I shall always insist upon these.
men violence faults
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
sleep average doubt
The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.
new-york cities literature
New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
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.