Davies Quotes

Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails. — Ray Davies

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats. — Ray Davies

But I was a lonely creature, and although I would have been very happy to have a friend I just never happened to meet one. — Robertson Davies

I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky. — Russell T. Davies

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments. — Richard Davies

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. — Robertson Davies

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object. — Robertson Davies

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? — Sir John Davies

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature. — Paul Davies

How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident? — Ray Davies

What are we living for? Two roomed apartment on the second floor? — Ray Davies

He's marked his entrance with an error of some momentum — Barry Davies

Live life, see it through. Carry on, it's all you can do. — Ray Davies

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. — Ray Davies

Rudolf Valentino looks very much alive and he looks up ladies dresses as they sadly pass him by. — Ray Davies

There is no such thing as dark power, only dark intentions. — Brian J. Davies

There is really no such thing as a secret; everybody likes to tell, and everybody does tell. — Robertson Davies

Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all. — David Clement-Davies

What had Pledger-Brown said? Too bad, Davey; he wanted blood and all we could offer was guts. — Robertson Davies

Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it. — Luke Davies

Arty farty, you'll never fool your Aunt, who knew you picked your nose and wet your pants. — Ray Davies

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man. — Robertson Davies

At times, the greatest courage of all is to live. — David Clement-Davies

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. — Robertson Davies

How much more complicated life is than the attainment of a Ph.D. would lead one to believe! — Robertson Davies

After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities. — Robertson Davies

I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe the tear from every eye. — Robertson Davies

I love the smell of Chai Tea in the morning... (What should have been said in "Apocalypse Now") — Sakinaa Davies

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather. — Robertson Davies

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach. — Robertson Davies

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness. — Robertson Davies

Wolves hate farewells,... — David Clement-Davies

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object. — Robertson Davies

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings. — Luke Davies

Ask a guy who his favourite authors are. If he doesn't list a single female among them, something up. — Stephanie Davies

Any theologian understands martyrdom, but only the martyr experiences the fire. — Robertson Davies

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it. — Robertson Davies

Mr John Langdon Davies warns women 'that when children cease to be altogether desirable, women cease to be altogether necessary'. — Virginia Woolf

The talking oak To the ancient spoke. But any tree Will talk to me. — Mary Carolyn Davies

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for. — Gavyn Davies

I'm hurling all the little joys against the greater sadness. The sadness is a giant weight. It presses down. Its mean: What's the point? — Luke Davies

I'm more inclined to linger in the science pages of 'The Week' magazine. But my principle obsessions are still watching sitcoms and football. — Alan Davies

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman. — Ray Davies

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in. — Robertson Davies

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. — Robertson Davies

There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself. — Dave Davies

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals. — Samuel Davies

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop. — Robertson Davies

You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that. — Andrew Davies

My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old. — Robertson Davies

I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic. — Andrew Davies

You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing. — Robertson Davies

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free. — Ray Davies

The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree. — Ray Davies

Love. The great destroyer of worlds. — Jocelyn Davies

I hate the idea that I have to represent any particular section of society; I just write good telly, that's all. — Russell T. Davies

And I come to realise that all my small todays, the way I act, will lead into my tomorrows. — Luke Davies

By 1960 work will be limited to three hours a day. — John Langdon-Davies

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. — Paul Davies

When you are so strongly drawn to music, you can't not be a musician. — Debbie Davies

Why would he do that? I thought
he said
he loved me." "As if I needed a reason to hate him more," Asher muttered, avoiding my gaze. — Jocelyn Davies

I love a good safari. — John Rhys-Davies

I love playing live now more than ever. I enjoy it, I think it keeps you young. — Dave Davies

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers. — Peter Maxwell Davies

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four. — Alan Davies

Life is only what you wonder. Day is light as your brightest dream. — Ray Davies

Good rock music always tends to be around. — Dave Davies

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either. — Peter Maxwell Davies

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. — Robertson Davies

I cannot remember a time when I did not take it as understood that everybody has at least two, if not twenty-two sides to him. — Robertson Davies

True love is really animal. — Ray Davies

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies — Daniel Handler

A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say. — Robertson Davies

A foolproof plan for not getting a job - show up for your interview wearing flip flops. — Alan Davies

'Hound Dog' is a really short record, and most singles didn't last three minutes. — Dave Davies

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence. — Robertson Davies

In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend. — Robertson Davies

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really. — Andrew Davies

If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear. — Ray Davies

Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million. — Robertson Davies

He would, wouldn't he? — Mandy Rice-Davies

It's like you miss a year of your life, — Jacqueline Davies

We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society. — Ray Davies

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. — Dave Davies

It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule. — Robertson Davies

I was hugely disappointed that 'Whites' was cancelled. — Alan Davies

When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't ... — Luke Davies

It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked — Barry Davies

We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality. — Robertson Davies

I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board. — Philip Davies

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique. — Robertson Davies

The immediate future may be determined by a race between the United Kingdom and the EU over which beats the other to a major crisis. — Norman Davies

How do you write a letter on the spur of the moment? And then post it? On the spur of the moment? — Edward Davies

The Fascist utopia, like that of the Communists, was false, and generated immense suffering. But there were those who dreamed it sincerely. — Norman Davies

You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose. — Ray Davies

They're trying to fill you with insanity — Amias Davies

There are two trilogies I admire: Robertson Davies's 'The Deptford Trilogy' and Philip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials.' — Amy Bloom