The Quotable Robertson Davies
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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.
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- 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
