Robertson Davies Short Quotes

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Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

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Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit.

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We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality.

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I do not trust any advice which is given in bad prose.

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Never neglect the charms of narrative for the human heart.

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Experience is wine, and art is the brandy we distill from it.

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When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat.

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The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

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Do they show us the future as it matures in the womb of the present?

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In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

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If you are an intellectual, your best course is to relax and enjoy it.

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We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.

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If I tended toward frivolity as a boy, I am incorrigibly settled in it now.

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Thought and reason, unless matched by feelings, are empty, delusive things.

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Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

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There is no democracy in the world of intellect, and no democracy of taste.

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After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.

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People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.

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I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

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Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.

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Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

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A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.

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A pig can learn more tricks than a dog, but has too much sense to want to do it.

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All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

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The dog is a Yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a Yes-man.

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Love, though sweet, must know its proper station
And never seek to rival education.

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Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

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She's been kissed oftener than a police-court Bible and by much the same class of people.

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When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

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It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.

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