Theatre Quotes by Robertson Davies

9 Theatre quotes by Robertson Davies

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Robertson Davies’s nine theatre snippets marry literary elegance with stage awareness, offering a concise yet cultured look at performance.

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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is…

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The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but…

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“What an amusing drama life is when one is not obliged to be one of the characters!”

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This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave…

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“...one's family is made up of supporting players in one's personal drama. One never supposes that they starred in some possibly gaudy…

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This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it…

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In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in…

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Great drama, drama that may reach the alchemical level, must have dimension and its relevance will take care of itself. Writing about…

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Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to…

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“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.”

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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…

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

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Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never…

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If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I…

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

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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…

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Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

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“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.”

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In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains…

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The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

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There can be no doubt that Samuel Marchbanks is one of the choice and master spirits of this age. If there were such a…

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Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.

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They're all so highly educated, you know. Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best…

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Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old…

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