Robert Morley famous quotes

04-17-2025

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
-- Robert Morley

#Falling In Love #Love You #Self Love
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti.
-- Robert Morley

#Lonely #Loneliness #Men
The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own France, a country which we have always judged to be much too good for them.
-- Robert Morley

#Country #People #France
I donâ€™t work.Â I merely inflict myself on the public.
-- Robert Morley
Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.
-- Robert Morley

#Dog #Training #Able
I have little patience with anyone who is not self-satisfied. I am always pleased to see my friends, happy to be with my wife and family, but the high spot of every day is when I first catch a glimpse of myself in the shaving mirror.
-- Robert Morley

#Self #Mirrors #Wife
We are articulate, but we are not particularly conversational. An Englishman won't talk for the sake of talking. He doesn't mind silence. But after the silence, he sometimes says something.
-- Robert Morley

#Talking #Silence #Mind
Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.
-- Robert Morley

#Business #Children #Training
Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.
-- Robert Morley

#Men #Buried #Fats
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.
-- Robert Morley

#Happiness #Falling In Love #Love You
A party: one arrives long after it's started, and one's going to leave long before it's over.
-- Robert Morley

#Party #Long
If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.
-- Robert Morley

#People #Trouble #Should
A cough is a symptom, not a disease. Take it to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about.
-- Robert Morley

#Doctors #Worry #Giving
It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.
-- Robert Morley

#Men #Theatre #Actors
There is little to compare with the thrill of standing next to the creature in the winner's enclosure avoiding his hooves and receiving the congratulations of the press, your trainer and friends who backed it. What makes the experience so satisfying is that you, the owner, have had absolutely nothing to do with the horse winning.
-- Robert Morley

#Horse #Congratulations #Winning
If in the paddock the owner is surrounded by a herd of young children, don't back his horse. But if the owner is accompanied by a beautiful lady, plunge to the hilt.
-- Robert Morley

#Beautiful #Horse #Children
Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."
-- Robert Morley

#Add #Public Speaking
When I asked my accountant if anything could get me out of this mess I am in now he thought for a long time and said, 'Yes, death would help'.
-- Robert Morley

#Long #Helping #Said
The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
-- Robert Morley

#Long #Tourists #British
Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.
-- Robert Morley

#School #Men #Bully
The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
-- Robert Morley

#Sports #Men #Wheels
I have never willingly chased a ball.
-- Robert Morley

#Baseball #Balls

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