79 ordspråk av Robertson Davies

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Robertson Davies föddes den 28 augustus 1913 och dog den 2 december 1995
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 A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed

 A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

 A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

 A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

 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.

 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.

 Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Good-night.

 All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages

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

 Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons

 Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

 Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind.

 Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.

 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.

 Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.


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