Christopher Morley Quote

Words, he concluded, are a commodity in which there is never any slump. Talk is the greatest industry, and all human beings move in clouds of it — not merely their own, but in the rumors and representations of others, to which they are sometimes painfully sensitive.


Human Being: A Story (1932)


Words, he concluded, are a commodity in which there is never any slump. Talk is the greatest industry, and all human beings move in clouds of it —...

Words, he concluded, are a commodity in which there is never any slump. Talk is the greatest industry, and all human beings move in clouds of it —...

Words, he concluded, are a commodity in which there is never any slump. Talk is the greatest industry, and all human beings move in clouds of it —...

Words, he concluded, are a commodity in which there is never any slump. Talk is the greatest industry, and all human beings move in clouds of it —...