Morley Callaghan Quotes

#1. Men are respectable only as they respect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. It is not sufficient merely to be a great master in painting and very wise, but I think that it is necessary for the painter to be very moral in his mode of life, or even, if such were possible, a saint, so that the Holy Spirit may inspire his intellect.

Michelangelo

#3. There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.

Maude Barlow

#4. This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong its life by slowing down some of the activities which are wearing it out, but death always looms somewhere on the horizon.

Immanuel Wallerstein

#5. As he still groped for that one moment, Father Dowling began to think that the whole city for years had been whispering its story to him out of the darkness in snatches, in a huge confessional where he could not see the faces ...

Morley Callaghan

#6. There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

Morley Callaghan

#7. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits.

Samuel Johnson

#8. A simple wisdom can change your complex life

Deepika Muthusamy

#9. How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!

William Shakespeare

#10. Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.

Evo Morales

#11. He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself:
A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

James Joyce

#12. you are not the story
they keep telling about you
over and over again.

you are not even the story
you keep telling yourself.

there are no lines
that can hold you.

there are not enough words
for all the more that you are.

AVA.

#13. Greater dooms win greater destinies.

Heraclitus

#14. 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

#15. Maria Clara did not faint, simply because the Filipinos do not know how to faint.

Jose Rizal

#16. I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30.

Morley Callaghan

#17. I know it may sound silly, but I think my short stories have a life and identity of their own. They crop up in all sorts of places.

Morley Callaghan

#18. The question is," Harry whispered, trying desperately to joke, "whether it's better to be dead from the neck up or the neck down," and the doctor smiled, knowing Harry was protecting himself with his sense of irony.

Morley Callaghan

#19. Putting his head down on the dog's neck, he vowed to himself fervently that he would always have some money on hand, no matter what became of him, so that he would be able to protect all that was truly valuable from the practical people in the world.

Morley Callaghan

#20. I'm probably better known for boxing with Hemingway than for anything I've written.

Morley Callaghan

#21. His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.

Morley Callaghan

#22. As on the one hand, the necessity for borrowing in particular emergencies cannot be doubted, so on the other, it is equally evident that to be able to borrow upon good terms, it is essential that the credit of a nation should be well established.

Alexander Hamilton

#23. There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.

Morley Callaghan