Skip to content

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

Another quote →

More quotes by Christopher Morley

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

Where the Blue Begins (1922)

There is only one success … to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Where the Blue Begins (1922)

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

The Haunted Bookshop (1919)

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.

Travels in Philadelphia (1920)

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.

Thunder on the Left (1925)

All Christopher Morley quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Christopher Morley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.