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
“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
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
“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
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
The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. — 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 attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life. — 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
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
“What an amusing drama life is when one is not obliged to be one of the characters!” — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
One of the things that puzzles me is that so few people want to look at life as a totality and to… — 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
“...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
