Robert Lewis Stevenson Quotes

Parents who daily read Robert Lewis Stevenson to their children and surrounds them with blocks, plastic animals, and some cardboard boxes or kitchen pots and pans are going to produce a qualitatively different child from those who spend that time on TV or videos, even if their choices ARE only Winnie the Pooh and Mr. Rogers. ~ Diane Medved

One morning, very early, when the sun was up,I rose and found the shiny dew on every buttercup ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Curiosity and timidity fought a long battle in his heart. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

We can only know others by ourselves. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

If ever a seaman wanted drugs, it's me," he ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Thems that die'll be the lucky ones. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Able to hear, I reckon; leastways, your ears is big enough. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

If thy morals make thee dreary, depend upon it they are wrong ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

man is not truly one, but two ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

You may lay to that. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

But a word once spoken who can recapture it? ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The workpeople, to be sure, were most annoyingly slow, but time cured that. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

A trifle more of that man,'he would say,'and I shall explode. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales; ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say? ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese
toasted mostly. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Scotland has no unity except on the map ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

They were kind when it occurred to them, ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

...the narrow arched entries that continually vomited passengers. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Both sides of me were in dead earnest. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

He was a very silent man by custom. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

He had hobbled down there that morning, ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I've a grand memory for forgetting, ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Sit loosely in the saddle. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

That is the bitterness of art: you see a good effect, and some nonsense about sense continually intervenes. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Nobody more welcome than yourself, ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Dead men don't bite ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

We are three very old friends, Lanyon; we shall not live to make others. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

We must go on, because we can't turn back. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

This is a handy cove, and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate? ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

No baggage - there was the secret of existence. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

After the moon went down, the heaven was a thing to wonder at for stars. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Come back? There is no coming back, young ladies, on the impetuous stream of life. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I sometimes think if we knew all, we should be more glad to get away. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

... Bear up until you see you're gaining. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

15 men on the dead mans chest - yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

To flee was more than I could find courage for; but I registered a vow of unsleeping circumspection. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Look out for squalls when you find it, and you will readily believe how little taste I found ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

To be honest ... here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Alan," I cried, "I can stand no more of this." "Ye'll have to sit it then, Davie, ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation say under shelter. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Sank or plundered. The sums are the scoundrel's share, ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

we cleared out of the river, and he had the ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

A mendacious umbrella is a sign of great moral degradation. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I was still cursed with my duality of purpose. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

And life is all a variorum, at the best. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Where is he wounded? ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't ever confuse motion with progress. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

There is but one art, to omit. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

If you would grow great and stately,
You must try to walk sedately. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

We fall in love, we drink hard, we run to and fro upon the earth like frightened sheep. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I often think the happiest consequences seem to follow when a gentelman consults his lawyer, and takes all the law allows him. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I wish these flies would piss off. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth now flees on feathered foot. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

he belonged to that class of men who think a weak head the ornament of women - an opinion invariably punished in this life. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

We pass our lives entirely in the search for extravagant adventures; and there is no extravagance with which we are not capable of sympathy ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Captain," said I, ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

In the law of God, there is no statute of limitations. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Time which none can bind,
While flowing fast away, leaves love behind. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet be sea,
There I'll establish a city for me. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

What a number of things a river does, by simply following Gravity in the innocence of its heart! ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

With a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Wild horses wouldn't draw it from you? ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Not Diana herself, although this was more of a Venus after all, could have done a graceful thing more gracefully. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson