Quotes by Robertson Davies

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

#Books

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible)...

#Books

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books...

#Books

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

#Stupidity

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the...

#Achievement

The people who are always monkeying with these great books to make them fully (comprehensible)...

#Books, #Friends, #People

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the...

#Business, #Chance

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

#Genius

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and...

#Genius

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

#Wisdom

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

#Fear, #Humor

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend...

#Robertson Davies