Robertson Davies Quotes about Children

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All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

Robertson Davies

Mother, Children, Parenting

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

It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.

Robertson Davies

Children, Memories, Lost Love

Robertson Davies (1999). “Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre”, Penguin Group USA

Whoever declares a child to be "delicate" thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

Robertson Davies

Children, Tyrants, Crowns

Robertson Davies (1996). “The Cunning Man”, Penguin Group USA

"Children, don't speak so coarsely," said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.

Robertson Davies

Daughter, Running, Children

"Tempest-Tost" by Robertson Davies, (Part 1), 1951.

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.

Robertson Davies

Children, Real, Serious

Robertson Davies (1983). “The Deptford trilogy”, Penguin Mass Market

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.

Robertson Davies

Art, Children, War

Robertson Davies (1992). “The Cornish Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don't know who I am and don't care. I sign "Jackie Collins" and they go away quite content.

Robertson Davies

Children, Who I Am, Going Away

Robertson Davies (1999). “Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre”, Penguin Group USA