Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

— Christopher Morley

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!

— Christopher Morley

A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beating in it. A story that's all forehead doesn't amount to much.

— Christopher Morley

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

— Christopher Morley

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

— Christopher Morley

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

— Christopher Morley

A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Hawk N'Hawk.'

— Christopher Morley

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.

— Christopher Morley

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

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

— Christopher Morley