No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

Quote by Robertson Davies

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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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

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)...

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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...

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.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

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.

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...

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we...

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we...

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...

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...

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...

Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because...

Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because...

Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as...

Having friends around for a pleasant evening is one of life's most cherished joys as...

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own...

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own...

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the...

Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the...