Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. Robertson Davies Read Quote
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. Robertson Davies Read Quote
Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They’d have been sick of all that rubbish in a year. Robertson Davies Read Quote
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. Robertson Davies Read Quote
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task. Robertson Davies Read Quote
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. Robertson Davies Read Quote
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. Robertson Davies Read Quote