Robertson Davies Quotes

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

The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

He was killed by the usual cabal: by himself, first of all; by the woman he knew; by the woman he did not know; by the man who granted his inmost wish; and by the inevitable fifth, who was keeper of his conscience and keeper of the stone.

When a man is down on his luck he seems to consume all he can get of coffee and doughnuts.

I saw corpses, and grew used to their unimportant look, for a dead man without any of the panoply of death is a desperately insignificant object.

‘Mary, what made you do it ?’ She looked him honestly in the face and gave the answer that became famous in Deptford: ‘He was very civil, ’Masa. And he wanted it so badly.’

There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.