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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes | Quotes said by Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #1

    ...That insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #2

    ...with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #3

    ¿Acaso hay algo en la vida que decepcione tanto como lograr lo que se quiere?

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #4

    A friend is a gift you give yourself.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #5

    A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #6

    A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #7

    A writer can live by his writing. If not so luxuriously as by other trades, then less luxuriously. The nature of the work he does all day will more affect his happiness than the quality of his dinner at night. Whatever be your calling, and however much it brings you in the year, you could still, you know, get more by cheating. We all suffer ourselves to be too much concerned about a little poverty; but such considerations should not move us in the choice of that which is to be the business and justification of so great a portion of our lives; and like the missionary, the patriot, or the philosopher, we should all choose that poor and brave career in which we can do the most and best for mankind.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #8

    Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #9

    Ah, there, said Morgan, that comed of sp'iling Bibles.

    That comes--as you call it--of being arrant asses, retorted the doctor.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #10

    Alan, cried I, what makes ye so good to me? What makes ye care for such a thankless fellow?

    Deed, and I don't, know said Alan. For just precisely what I thought I liked about ye, was that ye never quarrelled:—and now I like ye better!

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #11

    Alas! in the clothes of the greatest potentate, what is there but a man?

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #12

    Alexander Smollett, master; David Livesey, ship's doctor; Abraham Gray, carpenter's mate; John Trelawney, owner; John Hunter and Richard Joyce, owner's servants, landsmen--being all that is left faithful of the ship's company--with stores for ten days at short rations, came ashore this day and flew British colours on the log-house in Treasure Island. Thomas Redruth, owner's servant, landsman, shot by the mutineers; James Hawkins, cabin boy--'

    And at the same time, I was wondering over poor Jim Hawkins' fate.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #13

    All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #14

    All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #15

    An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #16

    An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #17

    And then, all of a sudden, he stopped, and his jaw dropped as though he had remembered something.
    The score! he burst out. Three goes o' rum! Why, shiver my timbers, if I hadn't forgotten my score!
    And, falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks. I could not help joining; and we laughed together, peal after peal, until the tavern rang again.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #18

    At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #19

    Avevamo, poi, due formidabili alleati: il rum e il clima.
    Per quanto riguarda il primo, pur essendo lontani quasi un miglio, potevamo sentirli urlare a squarciagola e cantare fino a notte fonda; per quanto riguarda il secondo, il dottore si giocava la parrucca che, accampati nella palude, e privi com'erano di medicine, nel giro di una settimana la metà di essi si sarebbero ritrovati stesi.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #20

    But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #21

    By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week. It is not only in finished undertakings that we ought to honour useful labor. A spirit goes out of the man who means execution, which outlives the most untimely ending. All who have meant good work with their whole hearts, have done good work, although they may die before they have the time to sign it. Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #22

    Certainly, if money could have been raised upon the book, Robert Herrick would long ago have sacrificed that last possession: but the demand for literature, which is so marked a feature in some parts of the South Seas, extends not so far as the dead tongues; and the Virgil, which he could not exchange against a meal had often consoled him in his hunger. He would study it, as he lay with tightened belt on the floor of the old calaboose, seeking favourite passages and finding new ones only less beautiful because they lacked the consecration of remembrance. The Ebb-Tide

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #23

    Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #24

    Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;
    Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore
    Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn
    Disturbs the eternal sleep,
    But in the stillness far withdrawn
    Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #25

    Doctors is all swabs.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #26

    Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #27

    Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #28

    Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #29

    Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

  • Robert Louis Stevenson Quote #30

    Everyone lives by selling something.

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