Robertson Davies

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. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#age #book #building #fine #great

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#because #cats #creatures #like #lovable

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#become #circumstances #extraordinary #extraordinary people #more

Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#love #relationships #dating

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#stars #business

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.... ↗

— Robertson Davies

#imagination #imagination

I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#business

My lifelong involvement with Mrs Dempster began at 5:58 o'clock p.m. on 27 December 1908, at which time I was ten years and seven months old. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#business

He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#temper #business

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#business