Robertson Davies Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies Famous Quotes & Sayings
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![Robertson Davies quotes: The paradox of money is that when you have lots of it you can manage life quite cheaply. Nothing so economical as being rich. Robertson Davies quotes: The paradox of money is that when you have lots of it you can manage life quite cheaply. Nothing so economical as being rich.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1876518.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-374052.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage. Robertson Davies quotes: I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1780142.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery. Robertson Davies quotes: May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1588400.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-232301.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous. Robertson Davies quotes: The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1986486.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: There's the satisfaction of Eng-Lang-and-Lit; somebody else has said everything for you, and said it better. Robertson Davies quotes: There's the satisfaction of Eng-Lang-and-Lit; somebody else has said everything for you, and said it better.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-551043.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Robertson Davies quotes: I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-2137067.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year. Robertson Davies quotes: Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1549989.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader. Robertson Davies quotes: What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1217220.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-152949.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-52836.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull. Robertson Davies quotes: Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1362407.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children ... Robertson Davies quotes: All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children ...](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1246042.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-367754.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: 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 quotes: The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-134001.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. Robertson Davies quotes: The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-752524.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: My position was a common one; I wanted to do the right thing but could not help regretting the damnable expense. Robertson Davies quotes: My position was a common one; I wanted to do the right thing but could not help regretting the damnable expense.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1274783.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-214164.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a story," and then he passes the Robertson Davies quotes: I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a story," and then he passes the](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1047357.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses. Robertson Davies quotes: It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-402242.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: The only people who make any sense in the world are those who know that whatever happens to them has its roots in what they are. Robertson Davies quotes: The only people who make any sense in the world are those who know that whatever happens to them has its roots in what they are.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1744419.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface. Robertson Davies quotes: But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1668882.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. Robertson Davies quotes: There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1601457.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence. Robertson Davies quotes: Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-264864.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million. Robertson Davies quotes: Nobody who looks as though he enjoyed life is ever called distinguished, though he is a man in a million.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-294874.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed. Robertson Davies quotes: A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1456085.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: The gods destroy the heroes with a sudden blow, but they grind us mediocrities for weary, weary years. Robertson Davies quotes: The gods destroy the heroes with a sudden blow, but they grind us mediocrities for weary, weary years.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1441811.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline. Robertson Davies quotes: The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1704932.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. Robertson Davies quotes: Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1725137.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live. Robertson Davies quotes: The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1745393.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say. Robertson Davies quotes: A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed - and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-242365.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: 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 quotes: 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.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-231968.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get. Robertson Davies quotes: If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1913830.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before. Robertson Davies quotes: You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1924170.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs. Robertson Davies quotes: I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1955271.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. Robertson Davies quotes: The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-79013.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in. Robertson Davies quotes: Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-70801.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: Myself: But wasn't the decision a right one? Am I not here? What more could Feeling have achieved than was brought about by Reason? Robertson Davies quotes: Myself: But wasn't the decision a right one? Am I not here? What more could Feeling have achieved than was brought about by Reason?](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-615750.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability. Robertson Davies quotes: Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground - not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-682982.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself. Robertson Davies quotes: If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-685974.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. Robertson Davies quotes: Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-845346.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. Robertson Davies quotes: Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-540266.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: Geordie wrote a letter to Mr. Webster in which the shrieking figure of Apology was hounded through a labyrinth of agonized syntax. Robertson Davies quotes: Geordie wrote a letter to Mr. Webster in which the shrieking figure of Apology was hounded through a labyrinth of agonized syntax.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1003079.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die. Robertson Davies quotes: There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1005659.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. Robertson Davies quotes: To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-503949.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: I don't think Emily was quite up to the demands of being everything to Chips. Love lays heavy burdens on the loved one, sometimes Robertson Davies quotes: I don't think Emily was quite up to the demands of being everything to Chips. Love lays heavy burdens on the loved one, sometimes](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-489465.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: Wisdom may be rented ... on the experience of other people, but we buy it at an inordinate price before we make it our own forever. Robertson Davies quotes: Wisdom may be rented ... on the experience of other people, but we buy it at an inordinate price before we make it our own forever.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-480975.jpg)
![Robertson Davies quotes: So Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty. Robertson Davies quotes: So Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/robertson-davies-quotes-1214565.jpg)
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robertson Davies
Discover top inspirational quotes from Robertson Davies on Wise Famous Quotes.