Life Quotes by Robertson Davies

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

— Robertson Davies

“You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.”

— Robertson Davies

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

— Robertson Davies

“What an amusing drama life is when one is not obliged to be one of the characters!”

— Robertson Davies

The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature.

— Robertson Davies

“How much more complicated life is than the attainment of a Ph.D. would lead one to believe!”

— Robertson Davies

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

“Life itself is too great a miracle for us to make so much fuss about potty little reversals of what we pompously…

— Robertson Davies

Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.

— Robertson Davies

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all…

— Robertson Davies

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

— Robertson Davies

And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and…

— Robertson Davies

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it…

— Robertson Davies

“If you are determined on the religious life, you have to toughen up your mind. You have to let it be a…

— Robertson Davies

Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it…

— Robertson Davies

I think a lot of people have unreasonable expectations because they never stop to consider what life actually has to offer them.…

— Robertson Davies

Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that…

— Robertson Davies

Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening…

— Robertson Davies

“Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in…

— Robertson Davies

One of the things that puzzles me is that so few people want to look at life as a totality and to…

— Robertson Davies

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

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

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

“What really shapes and conditions and makes us is somebody only a few of us ever have the courage to face: and…

— Robertson Davies

“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

“Once it was the fashion to represent villages as places inhabited by laughable, livable simpletons, unspotted by the worldliness of city life,…

— Robertson Davies

The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so…

— Robertson Davies

“In later life I have been sometimes praised, sometimes mocked, for my way of pointing out the mythical elements that seem to…

— Robertson Davies

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take…

— Robertson Davies

In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure…

— Robertson Davies

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading…

— Robertson Davies

“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

“To marry was to take a hand in a dangerous game where the stakes are the highest - a fuller life or…

— Robertson Davies

My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the principle that the one thing which is more important than peace is…

— Robertson Davies

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

Although I am almost illiterate mathematically, I grasped very early in life that any one who can count to ten can count…

— Robertson Davies

“We have no quarrel with the Freudians, but we do not put the same stress on sexual matters as they do. Sex…

— Robertson Davies

“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

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

Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind…

— Robertson Davies