Christopher Morley: Quotes
City and Country
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Humans and Human Nature
A human being . . . an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
Life
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
Poetry and Poets
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Success and Failure
There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Violence and Force
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
