Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
Watch for the ace of spades, which is the sign of death, and the ace of clubs, which designates the official of the night.
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer made my mate.
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer made my mate.
All by myself I have to go, With none to tell me what to do - All alone beside the streams And up the mountain-sides of dreams.
This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.
The best things in life are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet.
The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.
Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl.
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl.
AWAY with funeral music - set
The pipe to powerful lips -
The cup of life's for him that drinks
And not for him that sips.
The pipe to powerful lips -
The cup of life's for him that drinks
And not for him that sips.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
The sun was getting up, and mortal white he looked about the cutwater. But, there he was, and the six all dead - dead and buried.
Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.
It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity;
Do you know Poole," he said, looking up, "that you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?
Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation say under shelter.
I often think the happiest consequences seem to follow when a gentelman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him.
The young demand joy like a right - the old only wish to be spared unbearable pain. Robert Louis Stevenson
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
Try as I like to find the way, I never can get back by day, Nor can remember plain and clear The curious music that I hear.
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.
The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger
the black flag of piracy
flying from her peak.
the black flag of piracy
flying from her peak.
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.
Cruel children, crying babies,
All grow up as geese and gabies,
Hated, as their age increases,
By their nephews and their nieces.
All grow up as geese and gabies,
Hated, as their age increases,
By their nephews and their nieces.
My idea of man's chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.
Yes," he thought; "he is a doctor, he must know his own state and that his days are counted; and the knowledge is more than he can bear.
To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.
Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.