Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“How much more complicated life is than the attainment of a Ph.D. would lead one to believe!” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“If you are determined on the religious life, you have to toughen up your mind. You have to let it be a… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Life itself is too great a miracle for us to make so much fuss about potty little reversals of what we pompously… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million. — 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
“To marry was to take a hand in a dangerous game where the stakes are the highest - a fuller life or… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Happiness is a by-product. It is not a primary product of life. It is a thing which you suddenly realize you have… — 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. But… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening… — 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… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind… — 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
“Pessimism is a very easy way out when you’re considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life.… — 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 pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Once it was the fashion to represent villages as places inhabited by laughable, livable simpletons, unspotted by the worldliness of city life,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“In later life I have been sometimes praised, sometimes mocked, for my way of pointing out the mythical elements that seem to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“But the character of the music emphasized the tale as allegory--humorous, poignant, humane allegory--disclosing the metamorphosis of life itself, in which man… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“We have no quarrel with the Freudians, but we do not put the same stress on sexual matters as they do. Sex… — 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
“What an amusing drama life is when one is not obliged to be one of the characters!” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get. — 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
I think a lot of people have unreasonable expectations because they never stop to consider what life actually has to offer them.… — 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
“...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
