One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.

Quote by Robertson Davies

Topics: Funny Quotes, Teacher Quotes

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence...

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence...

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...

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.

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.

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)...

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 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 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 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...

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...

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

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.

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...

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 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...

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...

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

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

It was just a whimsical idea that escalated when so many crazy ladies took it...

It was just a whimsical idea that escalated when so many crazy ladies took it...

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea