Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 May 1890
CountryUnited States of America
Christopher Morley quotes about
informal women
Informal is what women always say they're going to be and never are
fell wall
There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down
four greatest poem poets
The greatest poem ever knownIs one all poets have outgrown:The poetry, innate, untold,Of being only four years old.
built country heaven queer suburban
Heaven is not built of country seats/ But little queer suburban streets.
inspirational success good-life
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
life broken-heart heartbroken
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
laughter humor two
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.
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.
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.
fake-people people enemy
The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
everlasting fascinating corners
The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
students
All students can learn.
friendship fashion growing-up
Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.