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

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)...

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

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

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past...

There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past...

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

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...

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...

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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,...

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 drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily...

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily...

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....

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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,...

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a...

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a...

The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life....

The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life....

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he...

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he...