Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet.
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“High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.”
Christopher Morley
“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does”
“There is only one success -to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
“When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.”
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.”
“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness”
“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.”
“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”
“There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.”
“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.”