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Robertson Davies Quotes

Robertson Davies quotes

Canadian Novelist, Writer August 28, 1913 – December 2, 1995

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Robertson Davies quote: "Nothing is more dangerous to maidenly delicacy of speech than..."
Nothing is more dangerous to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library. Robertson Davies
To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing. Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies quote: "No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English."
No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English. Robertson Davies
Men have this climacteric, you know, like women. Doctors deny it, but I have met some very menopausal persons in their profession. Robertson Davies
And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object. Robertson Davies
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. Robertson Davies
I learned later that the former operator of Abdullah had been a dwarf who cannot have been fastidious about his person, and there was a strong whiff of hot dwarf as I grew hotter myself. Robertson Davies
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, or die. Robertson Davies
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 back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves. Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies quote: "If you cling frantically to the good, how are you to find out..."
If you cling frantically to the good, how are you to find out what the good really is? Robertson Davies
I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part, a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules of romantic fiction, and complicated simple solutions with his absurd adolescent, book-born nonsense. Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies quote: "I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that..."
I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe the tear from every eye. Robertson Davies
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
Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not mattered, has not contributed in some way to the totality. Robertson Davies
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. Robertson Davies

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