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Robertson Davies Quote: “No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “The people who fear humor – and they are many – are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can’t afford a yes man.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “When irony first makes itself known in a young man’s life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “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 Quote: “I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is music. It is because I believe that I am poor.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “Civilization rests on two things: the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and the voluntary ability to inhibit defecation. And I put it to you, where would this splendid civilization be without both?”
Robertson Davies Quote: “The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “All eras of history are an equal distance from eternity.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “If you’re going to do something that looks evil, don’t smear it with icing and pretend it’s good; just bloody well do it and keep your eyes peeled.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “It is a waste of time to dissipate one’s moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “Whoever declares a child to be “delicate” thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a volume as Who Really Ought To Be Who his entry would require several pages.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “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 Quote: “Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “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 Quote: “The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are. The stench of formaldehyde may be as potent as the whiff of incense in stimulating a naturally idolatrous understanding.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children...”
Robertson Davies Quote: “Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains and certain aspects of our system pertain to it which are not dependent on any political party. In this sense, the Crown is the consecrated spirit of Canada.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “People are not saints just because they haven’t got much money or education.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.”
Robertson Davies Quote: “Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?”
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