Quotes from Robertson Davies

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.

One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind

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.

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.