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

- Robertson Davies

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

- 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

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

- 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