Christopher Morley: Citáty v angličtine (page 2)

Christopher Morley bol americký novinár, románopisec, esejista a básnik. Citáty v angličtine.
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“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”

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“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.”

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Christopher Morley kniha The Haunted Bookshop

Zdroj: The Haunted Bookshop

“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.”

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Christopher Morley kniha The Haunted Bookshop

The Haunted Bookshop (1919)

“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.”

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John Mistletoe (1931) http://books.google.com/books?id=20pJAAAAMAAJ&q=%22April+prepares+her+green+traffic+light+and+the+world+thinks+Go%22&pg=PA61#v=onepage

“Philadelphia was the first city to foresee the advantages of a Federal constitution and oatmeal as a breakfast food.”

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Christopher Morley Travels in Philadelphia

Travels in Philadelphia (1920)

“Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late, and not in the barroom downstairs?”

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"Contribution to a Contribution" as quoted in The Twin Bedside Anthology (1946) by Charles Lee, p. 183

“My theology, briefly,
Is that the Universe
Was Dictated
But not Signed.”

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"Safe and Sane" in Hide and Seek (1920), p. 92 http://books.google.com/books?id=vVEpAAAAYAAJ&q="My+theology+briefly+is+that+the+universe+was+dictated+but+not+signed"&pg=PA92#v=onepage

“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.”

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On Visiting Bookshops http://books.google.com/books?id=6H0hAAAAMAAJ&q=%22We+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%22&pg=PA82#v=onepage, Pipefuls (1921)

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

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Christopher Morley Where the Blue Begins

Where the Blue Begins (1922)

“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.”

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Christopher Morley Travels in Philadelphia

Travels in Philadelphia (1920)