Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
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.
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.
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…
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.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Robertson Davies
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
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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