Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Did you know that Puritanism went hand in hand with dirt, that Oliver Cromwell put a 100 per cent tax on soap and that the repeal of the soap tax was one of the most popular acts of Charles II at his Restoration?

Robertson Davies's Popular Quotes

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

- Robertson Davies

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

- 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…

- Robertson Davies

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

- 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.

- Robertson Davies

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

- Robertson Davies

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.

- Robertson Davies

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

- Robertson Davies

There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.

- Robertson Davies