Christopher Morley quotes

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God made man merely to hear some praise
Of what he'd done on those Five Days.
God made man merely to hear some praise
Of what he'd done on those Five Days.
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. - MORE Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
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 experie... - MORE 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, "I want you to love her, too!" It is a jealous passion also. He feels a little indignant if he finds that any one else has discovered the book, too.
Sleep, dear Sleep, sweet harlot of the senses,
Delilah of the spirit.
Sleep, dear Sleep, sweet harlot of the senses,
Delilah of the spirit.
Of old all invitations ended
With the well-known R.S.V.P.,...
- MORE Of old all invitations ended
With the well-known R.S.V.P.,
But now our laws have been amended
The hostess writes B.Y.O.B.
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
Heaven is not built of country seats
But little queer suburban streets.
Heaven is not built of country seats
But little queer suburban streets.
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