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.
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
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.