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Top 120 Christopher Morley Quotes (2025 Update)
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Christopher Morley Quote: “Gissing lived alone.”

101. “Gissing lived alone.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “The level sun, warily peering over the edge like a cautious marksman, fired golden volleys unerringly at him. At once Gissing was aware and watchful. Brief truce was over: the hopeless war with Time began anew.”

102. “The level sun, warily peering over the edge like a cautious marksman, fired golden volleys unerringly at him. At once Gissing was aware and watchful. Brief truce was over: the hopeless war with Time began anew.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “To laugh at cheap jests is as base as to pray to cheap gods.”

103. “To laugh at cheap jests is as base as to pray to cheap gods.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “As far as I can see, a man who’s fond of books never need starve!”

104. “As far as I can see, a man who’s fond of books never need starve!”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be “Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!”

105. “Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be “Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “People need books, but they don’t know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. – Roger Mifflin.”

106. “People need books, but they don’t know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. – Roger Mifflin.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us.”

107. “Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “Those who have bound themselves are only too eager to see the chains on others.”

108. “Those who have bound themselves are only too eager to see the chains on others.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it.”

109. “There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “Talkers never write. They go on talking.” There.”

110. “Talkers never write. They go on talking.” There.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “He was a little weary of this just, charitable, consoling, hebdomadal God; this God who might be sufficiently honoured by a decorously memorized ritual. Yet was he too shallow?”

111. “He was a little weary of this just, charitable, consoling, hebdomadal God; this God who might be sufficiently honoured by a decorously memorized ritual. Yet was he too shallow?”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.”

112. “Poetry is like an unexpected noise in the night: the creak of a door, a footstep on the porch, the soft scuffle of a moth against the screen, which rouses every sense to an instant alert. So comes poetry to the drowsy mind, which startles a moment, wonders, and returns to sleep.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “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.”

113. “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.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “He was so busy that he did not even have time to think of his pipe, or the morning paper. At last, just before lunch, he found a breathing space. He sat down in the study to rest his legs, and looked for the Times. It was not in its usual place on his reading table. At that moment the puppies woke up, and he ran out to attend them. He would have been distressed if he had known that Fuji had the paper in the kitchen, and was studying the HELP WANTED columns.”

114. “He was so busy that he did not even have time to think of his pipe, or the morning paper. At last, just before lunch, he found a breathing space. He sat down in the study to rest his legs, and looked for the Times. It was not in its usual place on his reading table. At that moment the puppies woke up, and he ran out to attend them. He would have been distressed if he had known that Fuji had the paper in the kitchen, and was studying the HELP WANTED columns.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained Possibility.”

115. “Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained Possibility.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “Each of us, desperately clutching his identity amid the impalatable onward pour of Time and Thought, finds only in art-and chiefly in written art- means to halt that ceaseless, cruel drift.”

116. “Each of us, desperately clutching his identity amid the impalatable onward pour of Time and Thought, finds only in art-and chiefly in written art- means to halt that ceaseless, cruel drift.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “When you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night – there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.”

117. “When you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night – there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “Everywhere, as we go about our small business, we must discern the fingerprints of the gigantic plan, the orderly and inexorable routine with neither beginning nor end, in which death is but a preface to another birth, and birth the certain forerunner of another death.”

118. “Everywhere, as we go about our small business, we must discern the fingerprints of the gigantic plan, the orderly and inexorable routine with neither beginning nor end, in which death is but a preface to another birth, and birth the certain forerunner of another death.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”

119. “There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”

— Christopher Morley

Christopher Morley Quote: “Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a ‘good’ book. A book is ‘good’ only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.”

120. “Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a ‘good’ book. A book is ‘good’ only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.”

— Christopher Morley

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