Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as… — 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… — 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,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in… — 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
The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people. — 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
No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English. — 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
Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their… — 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
I think we're living in an age which despises humanity and despises bravery and doesn't need bravery because modern warfare has rather… — 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
Humour very often consists of shrewd perceptions about people. It's usually fun at someone's expense. Nowadays if you're funny at anybody's expense… — 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
