Robertson Davies

...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#hero #romance #business

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#fear #courage

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#full #future #idealised #in fact #notion

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#conservatism #conserving #know #secondhand #their

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#defend #doctrine #every #gross #make

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#combine #dope #fiend #miser #those

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

— Robertson Davies

#did #die #lucky #rubbish #sick

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#belief #delightful #given #had #him

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#happen #inner #luck #make #man

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#gallery #never #playing #see #want