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
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
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
She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people. — 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
The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English. — 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
“...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
