These matters require what I think of as the Shakespearean cast of thought. That is to say, a fine credulity about everything, kept in check by a lively skepticism about everything.... It keeps you constantly alert to every possibility.
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in. - Robertson Davies
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.
- Robertson Davies
Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else. - Robertson Davies
Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguesse… - Robertson Davies
The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguesse…
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Robertson Davies
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
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. - 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.
Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it. - Robertson Davies
Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.
A Library goes on as far as thought can reach. - Robertson Davies
A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. - Robertson Davies
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket. - Robertson Davies
There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.
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