Robertson Davies Quotes

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

Future, Past, Fact

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

Politics, Conserving, Secondhand

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

Time, Society, Stupidity

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Robertson Davies

Worst, Dope, Miser

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.
Robertson Davies

Die, Sick, Year

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
Robertson Davies

Happen, Luck, Call

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
Robertson Davies

Playing, Forever, Gallery

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 people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.
Robertson Davies

Work, God, Best

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.
Robertson Davies

Art, Human, Spirit

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 to meet artists who have given us pleasure.
Robertson Davies

Lost, Him, Wanted

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Born: August 28, 1913

Died: December 2, 1995

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