Quotes by : Robertson Davies

I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.

Commanders and historians are the people who discuss wars; I was in the infantry, and most of the time....

They were untouched by modern education, but their government was striving with might and main to procure....

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

So -- I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read,....

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the....

He liked to make his hearers jump, now and then, and he said that our gravel pit was much the same sort....

Need we go into details about what I said to Judy? I am no poet, and I suppose what I said was very much....

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.