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
coffee men luck
When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.
good-luck ideas evil
In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.
science doctors skins
I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.
summer teacher school
One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.
political conservatism conserving
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
government stupidity interest
If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.
careers career-success has-beens
Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.
writing thinking hats
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a story," and then he passes the hat.
moving-on want shows
If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.
children real serious
All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children....
loss love-is men
The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities we can borrow and so become something nearer to whole men. Just as we complete them, of course; it’s not a one-way thing. Leola and I, when romance was stripped away, were too much alike; our strengths and weaknesses were too nearly the same. Together we would have doubled our gains and our losses, but that isn’t what love is.
way saws world
It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way
country book doctors
If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language.... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors...who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.
boredom evil stupidity
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.