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Robertson Davies Quotes about Love

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The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies
Love, Truth, Lying

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

Robertson Davies
Love, Funny, Wise

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

Robertson Davies
Love, Life, Passion
"The Pleasures of Love," in "Saturday Night", December 23, 1961.

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

Robertson Davies
Love, Spring, Believe
"Shakespeare over the Port". Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

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

Robertson Davies
Love, Years, Sick

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.

Robertson Davies
Love, Sex, Men
Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. Censors only read a book with great difficulty, moving their lips as they puzzle out each syllable, when someone tells them that the book is unfit to read.

Robertson Davies
Love, Moving, Book
Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin

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