404 Quotes by Robertson Davies

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

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

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.

When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.

He types his labored column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.