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
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
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
The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
A boy is a man in miniature, and though he may sometimes exhibit notable virtue, as well as characteristics that seem to… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels;… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional… — 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
Women say . . . that if men had to have babies there would soon be no babies in the world. .… — 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
Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man. — 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
The reclusive man who marries the gregarious woman, the timid woman who marries the courageous man, the idealist who marries the realist… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted… — 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
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