Top 35 Quotes by Robertson Davies

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.

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

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

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

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

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

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

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.