A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed. Robertson Davies More Quotes by Robertson Davies More Quotes From Robertson Davies If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get. Robertson Davies moving-on goal letting-go The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. Robertson Davies truth love lying Only a fool expects to be happy all the time. Robertson Davies foolishness fool 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 doctrine stupid history What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. Robertson Davies luck business men The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need. Robertson Davies reading spiritual book Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else. Robertson Davies grudge harm inspirational A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. Robertson Davies spoiled childhood belief The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man. Robertson Davies dog silly funny If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I should have to call it a ramble over several subjects, portions of which may seem to you to be impudent, and portions of which will be ignorant, and portions of which may contrive to be both at once. Robertson Davies ignorant police should-have Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. Robertson Davies happy happiness life In my collection, to me at least, the theatre of the past lives again and those long-dead playwrights and actors have in me an enthralled audience of one, and I applaud them across the centuries. Robertson Davies audience-of-one long past Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them. Robertson Davies offended genius people The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness. Robertson Davies physicians disease people The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. Robertson Davies living-creatures creatures pleasure We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course wonder is costly. You couldn't incorporate it into a modern state, beacuse it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshiped security which is what a modern state is asked to give. Wonder is marvellous but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel. It is undemocratic, discriminatory and pitiless. Robertson Davies splendor giving world It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule. Robertson Davies ultima voice stones I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs. Robertson Davies life order hands The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it. Robertson Davies retreat motivational happiness No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English. Robertson Davies feels people world
