The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books. - Robertson Davies Quotes
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books. Robertson Davies
 Idleness

More - Robertson Davies Quotes

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us. - Robertson Davies Quotes

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

Robertson Davies

 Canadian Novelist Luck
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, ''I will tell you a story,'' and then he passes the hat. - Robertson Davies Quotes

I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, ''I will tell you a story,'' and then he passes the hat.

Robertson Davies

 Writers And Writing
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time. - Robertson Davies Quotes

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

Robertson Davies

 Achievement Canadian Novelist
Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures. - Robertson Davies Quotes

Canada is not really a place where you are encouraged to have large spiritual adventures.

Robertson Davies

 Canada Canadian Novelist
She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people - Robertson Davies Quotes

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people

Robertson Davies

 Class
Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year. - Robertson Davies Quotes

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

Robertson Davies

 Canadian Novelist
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons - Robertson Davies Quotes

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons

Robertson Davies

 Animals
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 Quotes

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

 Happiness
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 Quotes

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

 Canadian Novelist Doctrine
Other-directed appears to be nothing more than a sociological term for weak-minded - Robertson Davies Quotes

Other-directed appears to be nothing more than a sociological term for weak-minded

Robertson Davies

 
Click To See More Quotes

Quotes By Popular Topics
Best Friends
Birthday
Change
Education
Family
Friends
Funny
Happiness
Hard Work
inspirational
Leadership
Life
Lifestyle
Lost Love
Love
Motivational
Positive
Smile
Smiles
Success
Work
View All Topics (A - Z)
Like Our Facebook Page
Motivational, Inspirational, Funny Quotes