404 Quotes by Robertson Davies

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.

The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

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

Other-directed appears to be nothing more than a sociological term for weak-minded

The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was their courageous, intellectually adventurous side, their greedy and inhuman side, their superbly poetic side, their morally pretentious side, their tea and buttered toast side, and their champagne and Skittles side. Much like ourselves, in fact, though rather dirtier.

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

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

It used to be fashionable for authors to have their pictures taken with dogs, but the dogs always looked like models hired from an advertising agency, and probably were.

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.