Author: Robertson Davies

Quotes

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

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

- Robertson Davies

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

- Robertson Davies

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

- Robertson Davies

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

- Robertson Davies

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

- Robertson Davies

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

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

- Robertson Davies

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

- Robertson Davies

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

- Robertson Davies

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

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

- Robertson Davies

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