Robertson Davies Quotes - Page 2

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• Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

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  People, Genius, Offended

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• What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

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  Business, Men, Luck

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me

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  Ideas

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

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• One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.

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  Innocence, Mystery

  Robertson Davies (1983). “The Deptford trilogy”, Penguin Mass Market

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• Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

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  Life, Matter, Belief

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• Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman.

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  Inspirational, Careers, Single Life

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• It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him.

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  Mother, Food, Men

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• After all, we are human beings, and not creatures of infinite possibilities.

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  Infinite, Possibility, Humans

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.35, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

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  Childhood, Belief, Spoiled

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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

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  Art, Wine, Alcohol

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

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  Legs, Four, Blanket

  1957 Love and Libel.

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• A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.

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  God, Men, Values

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education.

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  People, Saint, Havens

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.39, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

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  Happiness, Happy, Worry

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• Oh hearts! Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

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  Heart, Broken, Important

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.

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  Curiosity, Together, Cement

  Robertson Davies (1983). “High spirits”, Viking Adult

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• The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

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  Book, Bed, Companion

  Interviewed by Terence M Green, recorded in J Madison Davis (ed) Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989).

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• On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

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  Laughing, Devil, Satanic

  Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

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• Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

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  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• One of the things that puzzles me is that so few people want to look at life as a totality and to recognize that death is no more extraordinary than birth. When they say it's the end of everything they don't seem to recognize that we came from somewhere and it would be very, very strange indeed to suppose that we're not going somewhere.

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  People, Would Be, Looks

  Robertson Davies, J. Madison Davis (1989). “Conversations with Robertson Davies”, p.157, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

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  Life, Hands, Order

  Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

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• Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

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  Knowledge, Order, Healthy

  Robertson Davies (1952). “Tempest-tost”, Clarke Irwin

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• The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.

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  Attitude, Cat, Responsibility

  Robertson Davies (1986). “The papers of Samuel Marchbanks”, Viking, 1986

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• Be sure to choose what you believe and why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.

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  Believe, May, Belief

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• Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides a base from which a person can work at understanding himself and another person.

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  Giving, Understanding, Together

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