Christopher Morley
American essayist and novelist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
A sentence may be defined as a group of words, uttered in sequence, but without logical connection, to express an opinion or an emotion. A number of sentences if emitted without interruption becomes a conversation. A conversation prolonged over an hour or more becomes a gossip. A gossip, when shared by several persons, is known as a secret. A secret is anything known by a large and constantly increasing number of persons.
—Christopher Morley, American essayist and novelist, Syntax for Cynics, 1919
Posted on November 21, 2005 at 11:41 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
What a delicate and rare and gracious art is the art of conversation! With what a dexterity and skill the bubble of speech must be maneuvered if mind it to meet and mingle with mind.
—Christopher Morley, American essayist and novelist, What Men Live By, 1919
Posted on November 20, 2000 at 11:14 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
—Christopher Morley, American novelist and essayist, Inward Ho!, 1923
Posted on July 3, 1998 at 9:41 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.
—Christopher Morley, American essayist and novelist, Parnassus on Wheels, 1992
Posted on August 1, 2002 at 2:22 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
—Christopher Morley, American essayist and novelist, Thunder on the Left
Posted on July 21, 2003 at 1:27 PM
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