Robertson Davies Love Quotations

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

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

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.

That was what stuck in the craws of all the good women of Deptford: Mrs Dempster had not been raped, as a decent woman would have been-no, she had yielded because a man wanted her. The subject was not one that could be freely discussed even among intimates, but it was understood without saying that if women began to yield for such reasons as that, marriage and society would not last long. Any man who spoke up for Mrs Dempster probably believed in Free Love. Certainly he associated sex with pleasure, and that put him in a class with filthy thinkers like Cece Athelstan.