Children Quotes by Robertson Davies

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.

Children

Daughter

Running

Robertson Davies

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

Children

Mother

Parenting

Robertson Davies

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.

Children

Real

Serious

Robertson Davies

It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.

Children

Lost Love

Memories

Robertson Davies

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.

Art

Children

War

Robertson Davies

Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don’t know who I am and don’t care. I sign “Jackie Collins” and they go away quite content.

Children

Going Away

Who I Am

Robertson Davies

Whoever declares a child to be “delicate” thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

Children

Crowns

Tyrants

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Adventure

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Affair

Affection

Age

Agency

Alcohol

America

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Art

Asking

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Attitude

Audience Of One

Autumn

Average

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Bars

Beautiful

Beauty

Bed

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Believe

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Blanket

Blessed

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Blue

Blue Eyes

Body

Book

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Boys

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Broken

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California

Canada

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Careers

Cat

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Certain

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Champagne

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Characteristics

Childhood

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Church

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Class

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Coffee

Color

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Country

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Creativity

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Curiosity

Cutting

Dark

Daughter

Days Off

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Delighted

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Deprivation

Desire

Devil

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Discovery

Disease

Distance

Division

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Doctrine

Doe

Dog

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Dull

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Emotional

Enough

Evil

Eye

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Fall

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Father

Fear

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Feet

Fiction

Fifteen

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Food

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Foolishness

Forever

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Fortitude

Four

Fudge

Fun

Funny

Future

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Genius

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Giving Money

Giving Up

Goal

God

Goes On

Going Away

Good Luck

Government

Graduates

Grandfather

Grandparent

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Half

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Happiness

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Hate

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Healthy

Heard

Heart

Height

History

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Horse

House

Humans

Humor

Ideas

Ignorance

Ignorant

Imagination

Important

Inexperience

Infinite

Innocence

Insanity

Inspirational

Intellectual

Intelligent

Interesting

Jewels

Jobs

Junk

Kind

Kindness

Knowing

Knowledge

Knows

Language

Lasts

Laughing

Laughter

Legs

Letting Go

Levels

Library

Life

Life Is

Light

Littles

Live By

Living Creatures

Long

Long Ago

Looks

Loss

Lost Love

Love

Love Is

Loyalty

Luck

Lying

Mad

Majority

Math

Matter

May

Meals

Mean

Mediocrity

Memories

Men

Mere

Might

Mind

Mirrors

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Mistress

Mistrust

Modernity

Money

Morning

Mother

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Moving On

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Nasty

Needs

Night

Numbers

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Oil

Old Fashioned

Opera

Order

Ordinary Extraordinary

Paper

Parenting

Party

Passion

Passionate

Past

People

Photography

Physicians

Pleasure

Police

Political

Politics

Ponds

Possibility

Powerful

Preparation

Primaries

Principles

Quality

Reading

Real

Reality

Realizing

Reason

Religion

Responsibility

Restoration

Retreat

Rich

Royal

Running

Sad

Saint

Sarcastic

Satanic

Saws

School

Science

Scotch

Secret

Secretary

Seductive

Self

Selfish

Serious

Sex

Should

Should Have

Shut Up

Sick

Sides

Silence

Silly

Simple

Single Life

Skeletons

Skills

Skins

Sky

Slavery

Smart

Sometimes

Soul

Speak

Speech

Spiders

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Spiritual

Splendor

Spoiled

Spring

Stars

Stimulus

Stones

Stories

Strong

Students

Stuff

Stupid

Stupidity

Suffering

Suggestions

Summer

Sunday

Support

Symphony

Tact

Taken

Talking

Tasks

Taste

Taxation

Tea

Teacher

Teaching

Technique

Technology

Theatre

Thinking

Today

Together

Tongue

Tragedy

Trends

Triumph

Trouble

Truth

Trying

Two

Tyrants

Ultima

Understanding

Vacation

Values

Vibrations

Vienna

Views

Voice

Wall

Want

Wanted

War

Waste

Way

Weed

Week

Welcome

Wells

Who I Am

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Wise

Wish

Women

Woods

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World

Worry

Worst

Would Be

Writing

Years

Young

Children Quotes by Robertson Davies

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

All real fantasy is serious. Only faked fantasy is not serious. That is why it is so wrong to impose faked fantasy on children.

It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.

It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery in life, because they are trying to achieve what lay beyond their grasp before they were five years old.

Several children present me with scraps of paper for autographs: obviously don’t know who I am and don’t care. I sign “Jackie Collins” and they go away quite content.

Whoever declares a child to be “delicate” thereby crowns and anoints a tyrant.

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