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Robertson Davies Quotes


A Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor.
William Robertson Davies (born August 28, 1913, at Thamesville, Ontario, and died December 2, 1995 at Orangeville, Ontario) was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best-known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself and to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.

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The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.

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The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

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

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Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

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

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

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

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

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If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures let him begin the long solitary task of perfecting himself.

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Canada was settled in the main by people with a lower middle-class outlook and a respect rather than an affectionate familiarity for the things of the mind.

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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.

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The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figure dreaded and occasionally comic but never welcome never loved.

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As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.

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Men who look young act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the curses of the world.