Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.
Robertson Davies Novelist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: Canada
- Born: Aug 28, 1913
- Died: Dec 2, 1995
William Robertson Davies, CC, OOnt, FRSC, FRSL was a Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. He was one of Canada's best known and most popular authors, and one of its most distinguished "men of letters", a term Davies is variously said to have gladly accepted for himself and to have detested. Davies was the founding Master of Massey College, a graduate residential college associated with the University of Toronto.