Quotes by : Robertson Davies

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and....

In later life I have been sometimes praised, sometimes mocked, for my way of pointing out the mythical....

I wanted to get away,' said she; 'everybody wants to plague and worry me about nothing. They'll be all....

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is in fact a return to the idealized....

If we seek the pleasures of love passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic....

...What was wrong between Diana and me was that she was too much a mother to me, and as I had had one....

Civilization rests on two things," said Hitzig; "the discovery that fermentation produces alcohol, and....