Robertson Davies quotes

" The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. " # Truth # Humor # Lies and Lying

" Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. " # Genius # Freedom # Power

" To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. " # Books - Reading # Friends and Friendship # Jealousy

" The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. " # Nations # Education # Colleges and Universities

" A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. " # Happiness # Promises # Childhood

" Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. " # Cats # Writers and Writing # Wisdom

" I don't get ideas; ideas get me. " # Quotations

" Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests. In the minds of politicians, perhaps more than anywhere, the notion of a million dollars has this accordion-like ability to expand or contract; if they are disposing of it, the million is a pleasing sum, reflecting warmly upon themselves; if somebody else wants it, it becomes a figure of inordinate size, not to be compassed by the rational mind. " # Money # Politicians and Politics # Happiness

" The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. " # Eyes # Mind # Preparation

" He types his labored column -- weary drudge! Senile fudge and solemn: spare, editor, to condemn these dry leaves of his autumn. " # Journalism and Journalists # Writers and Writing # Autumn