C. Morley Quotes

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

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

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

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.

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

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

Killing is the payoff of war.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.

Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it.

The power of the state is measured by the power that men surrender to it.

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.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

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.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

The plural of spouse is spice.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

The Bush Cabinet is quite interesting, there are no flashy people in there. No stars. They all seem quite focused and serious and knowledgeable about the areas to which they have been appointed.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

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

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

You must in your music be wavering like the wind; sometimes wanton, sometimes drooping, sometimes grave and staid, otherwhile effeminate; and the more variety you show, the better shall you please.

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

I don’t work. I merely inflict myself on the public.

Anytime you get a group of people, they're going to have different ideas and they're going to want to approach situations in different ways.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

As a human race, we have good people and bad people, and everyone has agendas.

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.