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The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse.


Morley Callaghan

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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