Robertson Davies Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• We have educated ourselves into a world from which wonder, and he fear and dread and splendor and freedom of wonder have been banished. Of course wonder is costly. You couldn't incorporate it into a modern state, beacuse it is the antithesis of the anxiously worshiped security which is what a modern state is asked to give. Wonder is marvellous but it is also cruel, cruel, cruel. It is undemocratic, discriminatory and pitiless.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving, World, Splendor

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

• You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

  Robertson Davies

  Book, Mad, Giving

  Robertson Davies (1976). “World of wonders”, Penguin Books, 1977

• The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so many that I suspect they are never the same in any two cases. It includes passion but does not survive by passion; it has its whiffs of the agreeable vertigo of young love, but it is stable more often than dizzy; it is a growing, changing thing, and it is tactful enough to give the addicted parties occasional rests from strong and exhausting feeling of any kind.

  Robertson Davies

  Strong, Party, Passion

  "The Pleasures of Love". Book by Robertson Davies, 1961.

• The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Spring, Believe

  "Shakespeare over the Port". Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

• And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.

  Robertson Davies

  Jobs, Doors, Giving

• Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving, Curiosity, Degrees

  Robertson Davies (2008). “Selected works on the art of writing”, Penguin Group Canada

• The US, for historical reasons, mistrusts the concept of a welfare state, and this mistrust shows itself nakedly under present US government, which commits uncounted billions of the national wealth to what it calls defence, and is close-fisted in giving money to plans which would ameliorate the grinding poverty of a great part of its people. Quite simply, in Canada you could not get away with that.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving Money, Government, People

  Robertson Davies (1997). “The Merry Heart: Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books”, Viking Press

• Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving Up, Forgiving, Suggestions

• Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides a base from which a person can work at understanding himself and another person.

  Robertson Davies

  Giving, Understanding, Together

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