Robertson Davies |
Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist |
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 |