404 Quotes by Robertson Davies

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    There’s the satisfaction of Eng-Lang-and-Lit; somebody else has said everything for you, and said it better.

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    Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They’d have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

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    The beauty of ethics is that nobody can be perfectly certain about what it includes or even what it means.

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    People who have failed at Christianity aren’t likely to make great Buddhists.

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    To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man’s speech with other men’s jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

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    Unhappiness of the kind that is recognized and examined and brooded over is a spiritual luxury.

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    She was a romantic, and as I had never met a female romantic before it was a delight to me to explore her emotions. She wanted to know all about me, and I told her as honestly as I could; but as I was barely twenty, and a romantic myself, I know now that I lied in every word I uttered – lied not in fact but in emphasis, in colour, and in intention.

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