The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.

Quote by Robertson Davies

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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)...

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

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

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of...

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of...

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...

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor

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 clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for...

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for...

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...

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...

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

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...

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

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...

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...

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a...

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a...

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for...

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for...

Better to have spent a life reaching for a dream that never came true, than...

Better to have spent a life reaching for a dream that never came true, than...

I never worry about action, but only about inaction

I never worry about action, but only about inaction

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.