top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Genius quotes
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
Explore more quotes by Robertson Davies
"Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself."
"I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker."
"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
"The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."
"The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need."
"We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure."
bottom of page