Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“An infant is a seed. Is it an oak seed or a cabbage seed? Who knows. All mothers think their children are… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“He gave me this advice one time: Never marry your childhood sweetheart, he said; the reasons that make you choose her will… — 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
“But when mother died, Caroline was twelve, and in that queer time between childhood and nubile girlhood, when some girls seem to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
'Children, don't speak so coarsely,' said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters'… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“What really shapes and conditions and makes us is somebody only a few of us ever have the courage to face: and… — 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
