The great charm of cats is their rampant egotism, their devil-may-care attitude toward responsibility, their disinclination to earn an honest dollar.
Robertson Davies"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.
Robertson DaviesThe division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.
Robertson DaviesShe has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.
Robertson Davies"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