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Robertson Davies Quotes

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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them....  (Robertson Davies Quotes) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne  (Robertson Davies Quotes) The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend  (Robertson Davies Quotes) Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt  (Robertson Davies Quotes) Clarity is not a characteristic of the human spirit  (Robertson Davies Quotes) When religion abandons poetic utterance, it cuts its own throat  (Robertson Davies Quotes) I do not trust any advice which is given in bad prose  (Robertson Davies Quotes) If you are an intellectual, your best course is to relax and enjoy it  (Robertson Davies Quotes) You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery  (Robertson Davies Quotes) Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision  (Robertson Davies Quotes) A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart  (Robertson Davies Quotes) One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence  (Robertson Davies Quotes) In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth  (Robertson Davies Quotes) Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it  (Robertson Davies Quotes) We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality  (Robertson Davies Quotes) The love of truth lies at the root of much humor  (Robertson Davies Quotes) Only a fool expects to be happy all the time  (Robertson Davies Quotes) Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them  (Robertson Davies Quotes) A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life  (Robertson Davies Quotes) The art of the quoter is to know when to stop  (Robertson Davies Quotes) The professor who lectured on Shakespeare seemed to be entrapped in a grotesque, retrospective love affair with every one of Shakespeare's heroines. I think he even had a feeling that he could have made a respectable faculty wife out of Lady Macbeth  (Robertson Davies Quotes) Not all readers are prepared, at all times, to make independent judgments. But the failure of modern education to equip them to do so even when they have the inclination creates a serious gap in modern culture  (Robertson Davies Quotes) The true realist is he who believes in both God and the Devil, and is prepared to attempt, with humility, to sort out some corner of the extraordinary tangle of their works which is our world. He cannot use his feeling alone, he must use his intellect  (Robertson Davies Quotes) Humour very often consists of shrewd perceptions about people. It's usually fun at someone's expense. Nowadays if you're funny at anybody's expense they run to the UN and say, I must have an ombudsman to protect me. You hardly dare have a shrewd perception about anybody  (Robertson Davies Quotes) Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides a base from which a person can work at understanding himself and another person  (Robertson Davies Quotes) Thought and reason, unless matched by feelings, are empty, delusive things  (Robertson Davies Quotes) There is no democracy in the world of intellect, and no democracy of taste  (Robertson Davies Quotes) Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together  (Robertson Davies Quotes) There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket  (Robertson Davies Quotes) If I tended toward frivolity as a boy, I am incorrigibly settled in it now  (Robertson Davies Quotes)
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