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There are 38 quotes for the author Robertson Davies

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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Subject: Children

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.
Subject: Books

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.
Subject: Genius

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Subject: Books

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
Subject: Future

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books.

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.

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

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

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

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

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.

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 doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

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

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