Robertson Davies Quotes
Once It Was The Fashion To Represent Villages As Places Inhabited By Laughable, Livable Simpletons, Unspotted By The Worldliness Of City Life, Though Occasionally Shrewd In Rural Concerns. Later It Was The Popular Thing To Show Villages As Rotten With Vice, And Especially Such Sexual Vice ... Incest, Sodomy, Bestiality, Sadism, And Masochism Were Supposed To Rage Behind Lace Curtains And In The Haylofts, While A Rigid Piety Was Professed In The Streets.
Related Authors
- Eugene Fitch Ware
- Ferdinand De Saussure
- Hidenori Kumai
- Joan Chen
- JoAnn Ross
- Josh Bazell
- Lena Goldfinch
- Nigel Tranter
- Peter Wessel Zapffe
- Richard R. Nelson
- Ruth Stone
- William Webb
Related Topics
-
Quotes About Bad Writing
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different. — Ben Hecht
-
Quotes About Unknown Person
A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you can only gain a true knowledge of him — W. Somerset Maugham
-
Quotes About Not Going To College
This is a part of post-college life that nobody ever warns you about. Your social life is no longer dropped into your lap by virtue of shared classes and extracurricular — Lauren Layne
-
Just Like Rain Quotes
Crying is like a thundershower for the soul. The air feels so wonderful after the rain. Don't think too much. Breathe. Don't be harsh or demanding on yourself. Just experience — Bryant McGill
-
Lexi Quotes
With a dreamy sigh, I prop my chin on my fists. "Who knew that one day I'd be on a date with the lead singer from a famous boy band?" — Lexi Ryan