Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Robertson Davies quotes, Robertson Davies sayings, and Robertson Davies proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.Robertson Davies
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.Robertson Davies
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What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.Robertson Davies
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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
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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.Robertson Davies
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Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.Robertson Davies
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.Robertson Davies
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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
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To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.Robertson Davies
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Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.Robertson Davies
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The really great eccentrics are all inimitable; they are not possessed by a single oddity; they are, in their deepest selves, unlike the generality of mankind.Robertson Davies
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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.Robertson Davies
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.Robertson Davies
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Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.Robertson Davies
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A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.Robertson Davies
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The ideal companion in bed is a good book.Robertson Davies
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Nothing grows old-fashioned so fast as modernity.Robertson Davies
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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.Robertson Davies
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If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.Robertson Davies
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.Robertson Davies
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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion. What is left is theater.Robertson Davies
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I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes.Robertson Davies
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Music is like wine..the less people know about it, the sweeter they like it.Robertson Davies
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The egotist is all surface underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core, he is remorseless.Robertson Davies
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The sight of people getting married exhilarates me; I think that they are ding a fine thing, and I admire them for it.Robertson Davies
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Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.Robertson Davies
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The kitten has a luxurious, Bohemian, unpuritanical nature. It eats six meals a day, plays furiously with a toy mouse and a piece of rope, and suddenly falls into a deep sleep whenever the fit takes it. It never feels the necessity to do anything to justify its existence; it does not want to be a Good Citizen; it has never heard of Service. It knows that it is beautiful and delightful, and it considers that a sufficient contribution to the general good. And in return for its beauty and charm it expects fish, meat, and vegetables, a comfortable bed, a chair by the grate fire, and endless petting. Robertson Davies
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Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground—not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.Robertson Davies
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Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.Robertson Davies
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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