C. Morley Quotes

The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity.

America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

When Abraham Lincoln was murdered The one thing that interested Matthew Arnold Was that the assassin shouted in Latin As he lept on the stage This convinced Matthew There was still hope for America.

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

Truth is the ricochet of a prejudice bouncing off a fact.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.

And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work

I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.

The corporations have all their marketing tools, but it's so much better to go in and find out what's going on and what people are thinking.

A man who has his initials on his pyjamas must be uncertain of himself. Surely you should know who you are at bed time.

We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.

Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.

There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?

All change begins with someone having a thought.

You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self- denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened.

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a honey pot for every scholar and every hare-brained nut to stick a finger into.

Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.

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.

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

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

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!

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

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

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

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

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

All students can learn.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.