41 Quotations by Robertson Davies
- 21. Men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young -- but who nev ...
- 22. Much may be learned about any society by studying the behavior and accepted ideas of its children, f ...
- 23. Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
- 24. Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
- 25. Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a ...
- 26. Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you ...
- 27. She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.
- 28. The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, grop ...
- 29. The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend
- 30. The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learni ...
- 31. The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
- 32. The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themse ...
- 33. The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men ...
- 34. The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the ideal ...
- 35. There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend ...
- 36. To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser ...
- 37. Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not o ...
- 38. Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a y ...
- 39. What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
- 40. Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter, it's the belief that counts.
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