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Robertson Davies Quotes
«Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
distinguish, lassitude, marrying, promising, shiftlessness, wrecked
«Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Inaction
| Keywords:
accustomed, deprivation, inactivity, tomb
«Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Life,
Pessimism
| Keywords:
pessimistic, way out
«Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| About:
Beauty,
Sin,
Women
| Keywords:
constitute, minor, sacrament, sacraments, the sacrament
«The world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution that would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curse of the world. Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
burdened, caution, conservatism, conserve, conserved, conserves, conserving, dealt, everlastingly, excessive, fogies, fogy, grandfathers, harp, harping, nevertheless, ossified, ossify, secondhand
«I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs»
«If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled professional readers and story-tellers could interpret. Then people like you would have to go to public halls and pay good prices to hear the professionals decode and read the books aloud for you. This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors and I-Married-a-Midget writers who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
aloud, decode, decodes, exceedingly, halls, interpret, midget, midgets, pay off, prices, readers, retired, scaring, skilled, tellers, the books, The Professionals
«Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.»
Author: Robertson Davies
(Author, Journalist)
| Keywords:
begets, quotable, quotation, quotes, traffic, Vaster