Robertson Davies Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their darlings, or to amaze people with their possessions. They keep their prized books hidden away in a secret spot to which they resort stealthily, like a Caliph visiting his harem, or a church elder sneaking into a bar. To be a book collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope-fiend with those of a miser.

  Robertson Davies

  Real, Book, Dope

• I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

  Robertson Davies

  Country, Scotch, Desire

• The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.

  Robertson Davies

  Mind, Desire, Body

• Energy and curiosity are the lifeblood of universities; the desire to find out, to uncover, to dig deeper, to puzzle out obscurities, is the spirit of the university, and it is a channelling of that unresting curiosity that holds mankind together.

  Robertson Davies

  Curiosity, Desire, Together

  Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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