All Robertson Davies Quotes
- What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. Call
- When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts. All
- Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.… Ability
- He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. Autumn
- It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery… Achieve
- The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man. Afford
- She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people. Been
- The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar... Attitude
- I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand… Affair
- The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. Humor
- In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the… All
- Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique. Any
- I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting… Doctors
- One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries. Always Tell
- If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get. Damned
- I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a story,"… Author
- There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad,… Absolutely
- I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read… Any
- Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. Been
- If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life. Attack
- Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who… All
- Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their darlings,… Amaze
- Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. Conservatism
- Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.... Few
- Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. Bars