WIST Quotations

Morley, Christopher -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate.

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist, poet
(Attributed)

Morley, Christopher -- (Attributed)

Dave — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:30:20 +0000

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist, poet
(Attributed)

Morley, Christopher -- Inward Ho!, ch. 1 (1923)

Dave — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 20:40:26 +0000

Be prepared for Truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist, poet
Inward Ho!, ch. 1 (1923)

Morley, Christopher -- Inward Ho!, ch. 1 (1923)

Dave — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:17:35 +0000

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist, poet
Inward Ho!, ch. 1 (1923)
(Source)

Morley, Christopher -- Inward Ho!, ch. 13 (1923)

Dave — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:16:37 +0000

I suffer fools gladly, for I have always been on good terms with myself.

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist, poet
Inward Ho!, ch. 13 (1923)

Morley, Christopher -- Parnassus on Wheels, ch. 10 (1917)

Dave — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:11:54 +0000

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist, poet
Parnassus on Wheels, ch. 10 (1917)

Morley, Christopher -- Parnassus on Wheels, ch. 4 (1917)

Dave — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 01:29:04 +0000

When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue — you sell him a whole new life.

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist, poet
Parnassus on Wheels, ch. 4 (1917)
(Source)

Morley, Christopher -- The Haunted Bookshop, ch. 6 [Roger Mifflin] (1919)

Dave — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:19:58 +0000

Printer’s ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist, poet
The Haunted Bookshop, ch. 6 [Roger Mifflin] (1919)
(Source)

Morley, Christopher -- Where the Blue Begins (1922)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist, poet
Where the Blue Begins (1922)

Morley, Christopher -- Where the Blue Begins, ch. 8 (1922)

Dave — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:50:47 +0000

There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist, poet
Where the Blue Begins, ch. 8 (1922)

Morley, Christopher -- In Life (24 Oct 1969)

Dave — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:18:35 +0000

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti — it requires too much attention.

Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist, poet
In Life (24 Oct 1969)