I wish there could be an international peace conference of booksellers, for (you will smile at this) my own conviction is that the future happiness of the world depends in no small measure on them and on the librarians. Christopher Morley More Quotes by Christopher Morley More Quotes From Christopher Morley There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest Christopher Morley falling-in-love real book Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe. Christopher Morley planets earth men 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. Christopher Morley latin education america A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. Christopher Morley gongs railroads religion Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities. Christopher Morley definitions noble reality 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. Christopher Morley nurse morning children Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment. Christopher Morley good-man unhappy teacher 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. Christopher Morley truth men people Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh. Christopher Morley starting add 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. Christopher Morley prayer war life How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible. Christopher Morley women moments impossible 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. Christopher Morley blessed witty thinking There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner. Christopher Morley fashion tables people Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude. Christopher Morley rectitude frailty blessed 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. Christopher Morley government country america The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate. Christopher Morley marriage wife men The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow. Christopher Morley evening media mind Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare. Christopher Morley lust men thinking 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. Christopher Morley rain philosophy people We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul. Christopher Morley soul special book
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