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

— Christopher Morley

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious he learned the habit from Nature.

— Christopher Morley

Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it was some special wickedness of my own that made such queer things happen. Now I'm beginning to guess that everybody's like that.

— Christopher Morley

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

— Christopher Morley

My theology briefly Is that the universe Was dictated But not signed.

— Christopher Morley

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle;Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness…. There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory inhere sky scraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

— Christopher Morley

New York the nation's thyroid gland.

— Christopher Morley

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

— Christopher Morley

Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Unattained Possibility.

— Christopher Morley

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.

— Christopher Morley