Robertson Davies Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains and certain aspects of our system pertain to it which are not dependent on any political party. In this sense, the Crown is the consecrated spirit of Canada.

  Robertson Davies

  Party, Government, Political

  Robertson Davies (1994). “Hunting Stuart and The Voice of the People”, p.7, Dundurn

• 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 reclusive man who marries the gregarious woman, the timid woman who marries the courageous man, the idealist who marries the realist we can all see these unions: the marriages in which tenderness meets loyalty, where generosity sweetens moroseness, where a sense of beauty eases some aridity of the spirit, are not so easy for outsiders to recognize; the parties themselves may not be fully aware of such elements in a good match.

  Robertson Davies

  Loyalty, Party, Men

  "The Pleasures of Love". 1961.

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