Robertson Davies Quotes
1913 – 1995
Canadian novelist, playwright and critic.
26 quotesAbout Robertson Davies on Wikipedia
“Thought and reason, unless matched by feelings, are empty, delusive things.”
“Every man's death is, literally, the end of a world if he dies without hope.”
“Why are so many people ashamed of having intelligence and using it?”
“If you are an intellectual, your best course is to relax and enjoy it.”
“There is no democracy in the world of intellect, and no democracy of taste.”
“The reader cannot create; that has been done for him by the author.”
“Foolish people laugh at those readers a century ago who wept over the novels of Dickens.”
“A pig can learn more tricks than a dog, but has too much sense to want to do it.”
“Modern man is a debtor, or he is nothing, and money becomes more and more illusory.”
“When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat.”
“It seems to me that most of us get all the adventure we are capable of digesting.”
“Triviality about the past leads certainly toward a trivial future.”
“Without language, how can we tell anyone what we feel, or what we think?”
“We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.”
