Explore more quotes by Robertson Davies

"A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life."

Life, Childhood

"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion."

Man, Woman

"To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser."

Books, Miser

"You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery."

Want,

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

Luck, Man

"Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself."

Art, Belief, Literary, Spirit

"Only a fool expects to be happy all the time."

Time, Fool

"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."

Society, Time, Doctrine, Nonsense

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

Conservative, Conservatism

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

People, Fact, Future, Past

Exlpore more Perception quotes

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Perception, Saying

"All of life is a foreign country."

Jack Kerouac, American Novelist

Perception, Life, Country

"There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge."

Napoleon Hill, American Writer

Perception, Limitations, Mind

"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."

Mark Twain, American Author

Perception, Fools, Right, Trouble

"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Perception, Opinion, Public, Publicopinion

"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

Barack Obama, American President

Perception, Wealth

"Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Perception, Age, Lie, Dignity

"I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks."

Barack Obama, American President

Perception, Car, Bed, Driving, Girls

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Perception, Man

"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Perception, Feeling, Giving, Order, Tension