Robertson Davies Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.”

“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.”

“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.”

“Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.”

“The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.”

“Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.”

“Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.”

“What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.”

“Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.”

“No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.”