Top 25 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson of 442 - Page 12

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Night, Men, House

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.129, e-artnow

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Truth, Enemy, Weapons

Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Grove Day (1991). “Travels in Hawaii”, p.155, University of Hawaii Press

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

Robert Louis Stevenson

Rain, Fall, Sea

Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.9, Sparklesoup LLC

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Lying, Men, Silence

"Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers". Book by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881.

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Night, Long, Pieces

1883 Ben Gunn to Jim Hawkins.Treasure Island, ch.15,'The Man of the Island'.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Children, Men

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.4721, e-artnow

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Unique, Spirit, Habit

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.93, e-artnow

Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Fighting, Risk, Gentleman

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.74, Delphi Classics

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Memories, Tree, Ancestry

Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.36, VM eBooks

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Eight, Conscience

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “David Balfour: Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona”, p.91, Trajectory Inc

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Scruples, Ends, Standing

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.636, Jazzybee Verlag

With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, Discovery, Two

Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories”, p.42, Wordsworth Editions

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll, May

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage, Funny Love, Police

"Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records".

So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Growing Up, Expression, Brain

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.636, Jazzybee Verlag

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Littles, Levity

'The Wrong Box' (with Lloyd Osbourne, 1889) ch. 7

Everything is true; only the opposite is true too; you must believe both equally or be damned.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Believe, Opposites

Robert Louis Stevenson (1995). “The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson: July 1884-August 1887”

We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Pain, Animal, Scream

There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

Robert Louis Stevenson

Song, Night, Men

It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Forever, Watches, Remember

Robert Louis Stevenson, June Skinner Sawyers (2002). “Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson”, Neil Wilson Pub Ltd

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Mind, World, Body

Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.65, Cooper Square Press

Our affections and beliefs are wiser than we; the best that is in us is better than we can understand; for it is grounded beyond experience, and guides us, blindfold but safe, from one age on to another.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Age, Safe, Belief

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.4545, e-artnow

Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes

Robert Louis Stevenson

Views, Speak, Minutes

Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wise, Lying, Wife

1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.2.