Robertson Davies, Fifth Business Quotes

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

...so Leola thought that a modest romance with a hero in embryo could do no harm - might even be a patriotic duty.

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.

He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.

I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe the tear from every eye. No wonder I felt like a stranger in my own land.

I was a talking lover, which most women hate.