The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
Robertson Davies quote The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.
Robertson Davies quote He world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
Robertson Davies quote 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.
Robertson Davies quote 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.
Robertson Davies quote Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them
Robertson Davies quote He types his laboured column - weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn.
Robertson Davies quote I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.
Robertson Davies quote Biography
Canadian novelist, 1913 - 55
