The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. Robertson Davies Read Quote
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. Robertson Davies Read Quote
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. Robertson Davies Read Quote
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. Robertson Davies Read Quote
What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. Robertson Davies Read Quote
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving. Robertson Davies Read Quote
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. Robertson Davies Read Quote