3 December 2020 Robertson Davies The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
3 December 2020 Robertson Davies There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
3 December 2020 Robertson Davies A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
3 December 2020 Robertson Davies Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving.
3 December 2020 Robertson Davies The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
