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We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.


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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY 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 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 It was just a bang and then I heard sirens.
JOHN 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.
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