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Robertson Davies

Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist

Example Sentence (Quote) " [People] think of saints as people who lived an awfully long time ago and whose validity has disappeared. I think of them as people who didn't live such a long time ago, only a few hundred years or so. There must have been something about them that impressed people who were very much like me. What was it? And they must have been much more like somebody living today than we commonly think. What was behind it? What made these people special and what made a lot of other people regard them as special, either hating them or loving them? This is fascinating. It enlarges the whole world, and because it does so, it gives you great hope and sympathy with the future. You find yourself not an isolated miserable little wretch who has got seventy or eighty years to struggle along and then perish like nothing. You are the continuer of a very great tradition which you are going to pass on to the next lot. And you're right in the middle of the great stream of life. You see? Wonderful thing." - Robertson Davies

Example Sentence (Quote) "A few years ago I had to answer some searching questions to a Customs official about a book which I had with me, printed in Latin, and which the official suspected to be Russian; it was a jestbook, as a matter of fact, and I was so foolish as to say so, forgetting that a Latin joke is as strange to the modern imagination as a unicorn or an amphisbaena." - Robertson Davies

Example Sentence (Quote) "A Library goes on as far as thought can reach." - Robertson Davies

Example Sentence (Quote) "A life given to determining the best form for the letters of the alphabet ” does it seem extraordinary to you? But no day passes that our eyes do not fall upon something that was influenced, and made better, by this extraordinary, eccentric Scot, and if that is not a life well spent, I should be interested in a better definition." - Robertson Davies

Example Sentence (Quote) "A pig can learn more tricks than a dog, but has too much sense to want to do it." - Robertson Davies

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