The Quotable Robertson Davies
- The Quotable Robertson Davies
"The Quotable Robertson Davies: The Wit and Wisdom of the Master", published in 2005, is a collection of quotations taken from the work of Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor Robertson Davies; the collection was selected and edited by James Channing Shaw.
"The Quotable Robertson Davies" presents approximately 800 quotations selected from Davies' written works.
Contents
*Academia and University life
*Art
*Beauty
*Biography
*Books
*Boredom
*Business
*Canada
*Celtic
*Character
*Children
*Civilization
*Cliché
*Critics
*Curiosity
*Cynicism
*Death
*The Devil
*Doctors
*Education
*England
*Ethnicity
*Faith and Religion
*Family
*Fashions
*Fate
*Friendship
*Genius
*Guilt
*Happiness
*Health
*Heroes
*Hope
*The Human Condition
*Humour
*Insults
*Intellect
*Journalism
*Language
*Lawyers
*Life
*Literature
*Love
*Loyalty
*Luck
*Mankind
*Manners
*Marriage
*Men
*Men and women
*Mind and body
*Miscellany
*Money
*Morality
*Motherhood
*Music
*Nature vs. nurture
*Opera
*Philanthropy and Patronage
*Philosophy
*Poetry
*Politics
*Psychology
*Quotations
*Reading
*Revolution
*Science
*Self-pity
*Self-respect
*Self-righteousness
*Sex
*Shakespeare
*Sin
*Skepticism
*Snobbery
*Soul
*Spirituality
*Success
*Theatre
*War
*Wisdom
*Women
*Writing
*Youth
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