404 Quotes by Robertson Davies

To marry was to take a hand in a dangerous game where the stakes are the highest – a fuller life or a life diminished and confined. It was a game for adult players.

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

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences – a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

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.

But I can endure a surprising amount of midnight torment without being absent from class sharp at nine the next day. I suppose that marks me as something not quite up to the Byronic standard.

Poor woman, I suppose she led a dog’s life, and it made her disagreeable, which she mistook for being strong.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

Fiction is not photography, it’s oil painting.

I cannot remember a time when I did not take it as understood that everybody has at least two, if not twenty-two sides to him.