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

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

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...

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...

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of...

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of...

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...

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

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...

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 love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut...

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut...

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

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

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

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...

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody....

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody....

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...

The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power...

The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power...

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.

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...

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.