Very often when I am introduced to women, I think, What is she really like behind the disguise which she wears? And… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“I thought I was in love with Leola, by which I meant that if I could have found her in a quiet… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up — 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
“We come to God in little steps, not a leap, and that love of police-court truth you think so much of comes… — 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. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a… — 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
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. — 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
