She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.
Robertson DaviesIf you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.
Robertson DaviesThat is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive, or consumptive. Some ingenious composer should write an opera about a group of people who were condemned by a cruel god to scream all the time; it would be an instantaneous success, and a triumph of versimilitude.
Robertson DaviesBoredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.
Robertson Davies