79 ordspråk av Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies
Robertson Davies föddes den August 28th 1913 och dog den 2 December 1995
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 A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed |
| A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. |
| A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. |
| A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera. |
| A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. |
| A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. |
| Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Good-night. |
| All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages |
| Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it |
| Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons |
| Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. |
| Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind. |
| Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. |
| Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. |
| Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. |
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