Robertson Davies Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

  Robertson Davies

  Business, Men, People

  Robertson Davies (1983). “The Deptford trilogy”, Penguin Mass Market

• Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.

  Robertson Davies

  Fashion, Smart, People

  Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

• Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their response to the applause and appreciative laughter of the audience. It had an intimate quality; audience and actors conspired to make a little oasis of happiness and mirth within the walls of the theatre. Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box.

  Robertson Davies

  Laughter, Wall, Voice

  "Lew Fields". 1941.

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