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Robertson Davies Quotes
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. - Robertson Davies Quotes
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. - Robertson Davies Quotes
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies Quotes
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. - Robertson Davies Quotes
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. - Robertson Davies Quotes
Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. - Robertson Davies Quotes
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. - Robertson Davies Quotes
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. - Robertson Davies Quotes
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt. - Robertson Davies Quotes
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. - Robertson Davies Quotes
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. - Robertson Davies Quotes
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities. - Robertson Davies Quotes
I do not get ideas; ideas get me. - Robertson Davies Quotes
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. - Robertson Davies Quotes
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves. - Robertson Davies Quotes
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. - Robertson Davies Quotes
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. - Robertson Davies Quotes
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesnt, he should be ashamed of himself. - Robertson Davies Quotes
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness. - Robertson Davies Quotes
May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery. - Robertson Davies Quotes
No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English. - Robertson Davies Quotes
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision. - Robertson Davies Quotes
Only a fool expects to be happy all the time. - Robertson Davies Quotes
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. - Robertson Davies Quotes
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. - Robertson Davies Quotes
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. - Robertson Davies Quotes
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Robertson Davies Quotes
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. - Robertson Davies Quotes
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. - Robertson Davies Quotes
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. - Robertson Davies Quotes
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