The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The truth is that art does not teach; it makes you feel, and any teaching that may arise from the feeling is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Need we go into details about what I said to Judy? I am no poet, and I suppose what I said was… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
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… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
