41 Quotations by Robertson Davies
- 1. A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

- 2. A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

- 3. A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

- 4. A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine bu ...

- 5. Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for th ...

- 6. Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous co ...

- 7. Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets ...

- 8. Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest sur ...

- 9. Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

- 10. Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it ...

- 11. He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn thes ...

- 12. He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something ...

- 13. I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of ...

- 14. I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I wi ...

- 15. If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret langua ...

- 16. If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

- 17. It's very much easier to be tragic than it is to be comic. I have known people who embrace the tragi ...

- 18. Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend ...

- 19. Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woma ...

- 20. May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. ...

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