Christopher Morley People Quotations

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!

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.

There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their letters can be published.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

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.

There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.