Top 25 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson of 442 - Page 10

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

Men, Noble, Can Do

We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Together, Looks, Salt

Robert Louis Stevenson (2012). “Treasure Island”, p.30, Courier Corporation

There is but one art, to omit! Oh, if I knew how to omit I would ask no other knowledge. A man who knows how to omit would make an Iliad of a daily paper.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Men, Paper

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Lasts, Made, Force

It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, Morning, Eye

Robert Louis Stevenson (1926). “Virginibus Puerisque ; And, Across the Plains”

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Desire, Income, Wealth

Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's Vol. 16”, p.62, VM eBooks

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, Ease, Forget

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.566, Jazzybee Verlag

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Inspirational, Courage, Virtue

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.2162, Delphi Classics

Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, Self, Mind

Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.118, Bibliolis Books

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel, Tourism, Disenchanted

The obscurest epoch is to-day.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Time, History, Epoch

Robert Louis Stevenson (2004). “Lay Morals”, p.108, 1st World Publishing

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Teacher, Wife

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Songs of Travel: And Other Verses”, p.37, The Floating Press

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator. And how many loves have perished because, from pride, or spite, or diffidence, or that unmanly shame which withholds a man from daring to betray emotion, a lover, at the critical point of the relation, has but hung his head and held his tongue?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Lying, Pride

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4568, e-artnow

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Strong, Mistake, Errors

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4576, e-artnow

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, Careers, Lasts

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4487, Delphi Classics

By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Get Well, Men, Miracle

Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Stars, Wall, Sleep

Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes: Stevenson's Vol. 5”, p.41, VM eBooks

There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Land, Traveller, Foreign Lands

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4189, e-artnow

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of wit, A house with lawns enclosing it, A living river by the door, A nightingale in the sycamore!

Robert Louis Stevenson

Flower, Book, Wine

'Underwoods' (1887) 'Envoy'.

Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Credit, Thrice

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Dog, Men, World

Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.70, VM eBooks

This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Dream, Reality, Rocks

Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.91, Cooper Square Press

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Strong, Fear, Passion

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Short Story Collections by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped and Catriona”, p.104, e-artnow

Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Stars, Men, Rivers

'Songs of Travel' (1896) 'The Vagabond'

Benjamin Franklin went through life an altered man because he once paid too dearly for a penny whistle. My concern springs usually from a deeper source, to wit, from having bought a whistle when I did not want one.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Spring, Men, Pennies

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.554, Jazzybee Verlag