Robertson Davies

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

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

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

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