If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

Quote by Robertson Davies

Topics: Common Quotes, Love Quotes, Passion Quotes

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

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

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more...

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more...

One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets...

One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets...

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also...

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also...

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the...

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the...

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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.

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of...

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of...

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am...

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am...

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

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

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to...

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to...

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The...

Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The...

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind,...

The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind,...

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and...

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and...

Genius is of no country; her pure ray / Spreads all abroad, as general as...

Genius is of no country; her pure ray / Spreads all abroad, as general as...

Genius is intensity

Genius is intensity

Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original...

Eveyone is a genius at least once a year. A real genius has his original...