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People Quotes by Robertson Davies
- 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.…
- The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.
- She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.
- 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…
- 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,…
- Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them....
- The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.
- He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by…
- 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 most…
- Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the…
- The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received…
- The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to…
- No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
- Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of…
- Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
- Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known…
- I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the…
- The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
- We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful…
- The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
- If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and…
- The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions…
- The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible) have no friend in me, for in their realm the…
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