FastSaying

The essence of morality is the subjugation of nature in obedience to social needs.


John Morley

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fool...
ANUJ SOMANY Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers...
ANUJ SOMANY Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of t...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Any change one effect on his natural being with a purpose would definitely end up revealing his hypo...
CHANDRABABU V.S. Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same tim...
KENNETH EADE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON What's the meaning of life? Other people.
JOHN GREEN The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse...
JOHN LOCKE All that we have achieved in life is creating a virtual reality for ourselves, while burying the act...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To the enormous majority of persons who risk themselves in literature, not even the smallest measure...
ANDREW LANG There is no greater glory than to die for love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
JOHN H. GROBERG The glory of the cross is bound up with the effectiveness of its accomplishment.
JOHN MURRAY Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what...
JOHN STEINBECK May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.
PHILIP G. ZIMBARDO The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to u...
GEORGES BATAILLE Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. WELLS I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I don't know. I can't tell the future I just work there.
STEVEN MOFFAT She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO I'm a roller coaster that only foes up.
- THE FAULT IN OUR STARS JOHN GREEN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.
ANDREA HAIRSTON It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto marty...
JOHN OWEN Now, for what sins he made satisfaction, for them the justice of God is satisfied; which surely is n...
JOHN OWEN The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who beli...
C. JOYBELL C. We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person.
ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ...
ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
ZARA PHILLIPS

More John Morley

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
JOHN MORLEY Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the pers...
JOHN MORLEY Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done s...
JOHN MORLEY Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpiece...
JOHN MORLEY In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
JOHN MORLEY The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
JOHN MORLEY Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious...
JOHN MORLEY Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the t...
JOHN MORLEY Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
JOHN MORLEY They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a ...
JOHN MORLEY You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
JOHN MORLEY Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
JOHN MORLEY In parliament he again pressed the necessity of reducing expenditure. Friends warned him that he was...
JOHN MORLEY Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
JOHN MORLEY The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
JOHN MORLEY Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that...
JOHN MORLEY They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of ...
JOHN MORLEY A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
JOHN MORLEY The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
JOHN MORLEY Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
JOHN MORLEY Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
JOHN MORLEY He who hates vice hates men.
JOHN MORLEY No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
JOHN MORLEY Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, th...
JOHN MORLEY A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
JOHN MORLEY Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking
JOHN MORLEY The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart
JOHN MORLEY All religions die of one disease - that of being found out
JOHN MORLEY It was just a bang and then I heard sirens.
JOHN MORLEY You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
JOHN MORLEY What really shifted my understanding of my potential placement in the world of art is when I had a c...
MORLEY As a screenwriter, there's so many layers you have to go through in order to tell your story. Yo...
MORLEY I include myself in the posters because I feel like it forms a more intimate relationship between th...
MORLEY Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
JOHN VISCOUNT MORLEY It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
JOHN VISCOUNT MORLEY You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
JOHN VISCOUNT MORLEY Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious...
JOHN VISCOUNT MORLEY From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
KAREN MORLEY I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
KAREN MORLEY I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take ca...
KAREN MORLEY I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that...
KAREN MORLEY Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.
KAREN MORLEY It was all men, and there I was prancing around in gowns that barely got past the censors.
KAREN MORLEY I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.
KAREN MORLEY I don't like giving speeches - I enjoy sitting on my rump.
KAREN MORLEY And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work.
KAREN MORLEY After more than 50 years of broadcasting on 'CBS News' and '60 Minutes,' I have deci...
MORLEY SAFER There is only one success to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absu...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not alway...
BOB MORLEY There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others ...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place,...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Only the sinner has a right to preach.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The courage of the Poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you your...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and earning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really impor...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colos...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem ...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the probl...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinki...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.
ROBERT MORLEY A human being is an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesda...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephon...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Only the sinner has the right to preach.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephon...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in orde...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY New York, the nation's thyroid gland.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are t...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the b...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Act like you expect to get into the end zone.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No man is lonely eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs sh...
MORLEY SAFER No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.
MORLEY SAFER The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a ch...
MORLEY CALLAGHAN A human being: an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Why do they put the Gideon bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late?
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Only the sinner has a right to preach
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and comp...
MORLEY SAFER It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.
MORLEY SAFER A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side...
FELIX MORLEY There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are certain people whom one feels almost inclined to urge to hurry up and die so that their le...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated, but not signed.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversations as a dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others a...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Success: Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work - I merely inflict myself upon the public.
ROBERT MORLEY There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY We call a child's mind "small" simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take i...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a ...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.
ROBERT MORLEY You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.
MORLEY SAFER When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell hi...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side
FELIX MORLEY Having alternatives is important we believe as the industry continues to consolidate. On the Draw si...
PATRICK MORLEY Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in m...
MORLEY SAFER Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
MORLEY SAFER I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not enc...
MORLEY SAFER When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy....
MORLEY SAFER When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possib...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY I'm just wondering whether going back to the mundane bread-and-butter stuff of legal work must be ki...
MORLEY SAFER Has it changed the way you look at the rest of your life?
MORLEY SAFER In those long months of listening to those horrible stories, dreadful stories, how did you get throu...
MORLEY SAFER Yes, it will. It absolutely will.
MORLEY SAFER Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.
MORLEY SAFER The BBC is a perfect example of uncontrolled growth, [occupying] old churches and manor houses, the ...
MORLEY SAFER BBC Radio is a never-never land of broadcasting, a safe haven from commercial considerations, a hone...
MORLEY SAFER Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.
MORLEY SAFER 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 Who knows who will be on board? A couple of spies, for sure. At least one grand duke; a few beautifu...
MORLEY SAFER As the kind of movie star that you were, certainly you could be a dictator, ... You could say, 'I wa...
MORLEY SAFER 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 When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'
MORLEY SAFER 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 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 The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, everyday, something no one else is thinkin...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success -to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is no squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an idea yesterday and those wh...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the probl...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the gr...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others ab...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.
MORLEY SAFER McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determina...
MORLEY SAFER Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The market appeared at first sight to take some heed from the Reserve Bank's recent warnings, with a...
HOWARD MORLEY People coming from Lakeview Drive have trouble getting out at that intersection. I just came from th...
DENNIS MORLEY