Robertson Davies World Quotations

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way

We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality.

To this day I am indulgent toward orchestras that are trying to lift themselves in the world, while critics are busy assuring them that they are not the Vienna Philharmonic and never will be.

Aristocrats need not be rich, but they must be free, and in the modern world freedom grows rarer the more we prate about it.

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.