Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies
William Robertson Davies, CC, OOnt, FRSC, FRSLwas 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...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 August 1913
beauty achievement today
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.
ideas
I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me
heart thinking men
A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.
future past people
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
attitude cat responsibility
The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar...
silence tongue sometimes
Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.
educational optimistic knowledge
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
jobs house kind
Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things the job, the house, the this, the that do not really fill the place inside.
spiritual book reading
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
funny dog silly
The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.
students graduates champagne
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
talking names stupidity
It is not always easy to diagnose. The simplest form of stupidity - the mumbling, nose-picking, stolid incomprehension - can be detected by anyone. But the stupidity which disguises itself as thought, and which talks so glibly and eloquently, indeed never stops talking, in every walk of life is not so easy to identify, because it marches under a formidable name, which few dare attack. It is called Popular Opinion...
blood knowing secret
Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.
stupidity weapons doctrine
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.