Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

Robertson Davies Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: Canada
  • Born: Aug 28, 1913
  • Died: Dec 2, 1995

William Robertson Davies, CC, OOnt, FRSC, FRSL was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself and to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.

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

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. politics

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor. humor

Thanksgiving November 28, 2024

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. 32 quotes from William Blake

32 quotes from William Blake

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. 6 quotes from Franz Grillparzer

6 quotes from Franz Grillparzer

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. 2 views from Storm Jameson

2 views from Storm Jameson

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. 73 sayings from Victor Hugo

73 sayings from Victor Hugo