Robert Morley Quotes

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.

Show me a man who has enjoyed his school days and I'll show you a bully and bore.

Most owners are at length able to teach themselves to obey their dog.

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.

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.

The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.

I am not ashamed that I was once a vacuum-cleaner salesman, only that I was a *good* vacuum-cleaner salesman.

Names were not so much dropped as thrown in a perpetual game of catch.

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.

I have never willingly chased a ball.

Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

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

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential.

A party: one arrives long after it's started, and one's going to leave long before it's over.

Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.