Killing is the payoff of war.


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JOHN MORLEY
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JOHN MORLEY
It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely ess...
ROBERT MORLEY
I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends,...
ROBERT MORLEY
The greatest poem ever knownIs one all poets have outgrown:The poetry, innate, untold,Of being only ...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Poetry, men attain By subtler pain More flagrant in the brain - An honesty unfeigned, A heart unchai...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of id...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Truth is the strong compost in which beauty may sometimes germinate
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Informal is what women always say they're going to be and never are
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
There was so much handwriting on the wall that even the wall fell down
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
ROBERT MORLEY
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The othe...
ROBERT MORLEY
Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possi...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Everything they said she has to be she's contradicted. She's small and has a tough look, her face is...
PAUL MORLEY
Life's a lot different from what people pretend. That's why pretending is fun. I used to think it wa...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
It was just a bang and then I heard sirens.
JOHN MORLEY
Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY