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“Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.”
— Robertson Davies  ·  No category
“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  ·  No category
“To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.”
— Robertson Davies  ·  Books
“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  ·  No category
“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  ·  Genius
“A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.”
— Robertson Davies  ·  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.”
— Robertson Davies  ·  Books
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.”
— Robertson Davies  ·  The Future
“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  ·  Books
“The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.”
— Robertson Davies  ·  No category
“Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.”
— Robertson Davies  ·  No category
“Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.”
— Robertson Davies  ·  No category
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