People Quotes by Robertson Davies

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

— Robertson Davies

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

— Robertson Davies

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

— Robertson Davies

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

— Robertson Davies

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

— Robertson Davies

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them…

— Robertson Davies

People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.

— Robertson Davies

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

— Robertson Davies

The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights,…

— Robertson Davies

In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or…

— Robertson Davies

Let people alone. Let them find their way. Let them find their level and you may sometimes be delighted and astonished at…

— Robertson Davies

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

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people…

— Robertson Davies

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness,…

— Robertson Davies

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

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as…

— Robertson Davies

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

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

— Robertson Davies

Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard…

— Robertson Davies

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

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

— Robertson Davies

The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government,…

— Robertson Davies

Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show…

— Robertson Davies

Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody…

— Robertson Davies

Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as…

— Robertson Davies

Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there…

— Robertson Davies

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

— Robertson Davies

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their…

— Robertson Davies

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that…

— Robertson Davies

Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument,…

— Robertson Davies

The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until…

— Robertson Davies

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in…

— Robertson Davies

I am constantly astonished by the people, otherwise intelligent, who think that anything so complex and delicate as a marriage can be…

— Robertson Davies

I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the…

— Robertson Davies

That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive,…

— Robertson Davies

My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the…

— Robertson Davies

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled…

— Robertson Davies

Though thousands of people indulge themselves in it regularly, and even develop a taste for it, there is no doubt in my…

— Robertson Davies

Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation…

— Robertson Davies