Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons

Quote by Robertson Davies

Topics: Animals Quotes, Writers Quotes

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors...

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors...

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

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

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the...

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the...

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...

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible)...

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible)...

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody...

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

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...

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact...

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact...

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...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an...

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

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

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.

It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet...

It isn't everybody who is the hero of his own romance, and when we meet...

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...

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books...

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books...

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her...

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her...

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But...

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But...

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward