Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as… — 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
I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I do not really like vacations. I much prefer an occasional day off when I do not feel like working. When I… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that… — 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
