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Robertson Davies

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 light
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
— Robertson Davies reason
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
— Robertson Davies mind
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
— Robertson Davies vision
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
— Robertson Davies people
Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.
— Robertson Davies doubt
I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
— Robertson Davies ideas
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
— Robertson Davies time
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
— Robertson Davies life
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
— Robertson Davies love
Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
— Robertson Davies time
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
— Robertson Davies people
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 time
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 reading
Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.
— Robertson Davies luck
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
— Robertson Davies man
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 time
No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
— Robertson Davies people
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 love
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
— Robertson Davies
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
— Robertson Davies experience
Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
— Robertson Davies people
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 man
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 reading
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.
— Robertson Davies love
Women tell men things that they are not likely to find out for themselves.
— Robertson Davies men
When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.
— Robertson Davies man
And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.
— Robertson Davies life
No, its the musicians and I must say they are an accomplished bunch, but odd, as musicians tend to be. Is it the vibration from their instruments, do you suppose, working on the brain? All that fraught buzzing?
— Robertson Davies music

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