Robertson Davies Quotes & Sayings
35 most famous Robertson Davies quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a Canadian novelist who passed away on 3 December, 1995.
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
“Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.”
“Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.”
“I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.”
“A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.”
“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.”
“The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.”
“Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.”
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