79 ordspråk av Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies föddes den August 28th 1913 och dog den 2 December 1995
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 Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world |
| Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. |
| Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content. |
| She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive. |
| The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books. |
| The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man. |
| The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. |
| The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. |
| The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. |
| The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. |
| The love of truth lies at the root of much humor |
| The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up |
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