Top 35 Quotes by Robertson Davies

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.

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.

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

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

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.

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

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

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