Top 25 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson of 442 - Page 15

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Girl, Boys, Men

'A Child's Garden of Verses' (1885) 'Looking Forward'

To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Honesty, Kindness

Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “A Christmas Sermon”, p.5, Xist Publishing

To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artis en life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbor.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Children, Balance, Age

Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1915). “"Virginibus puerisque," and othe other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, People, Wife

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.567, Jazzybee Verlag

Am I no a bonny fighter?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Fighter, Classic

Kidnapped ch. 10 (1886)

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Powerful, Funeral

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3687, Delphi Classics

When the grass was closely mown, Walking on the lawn alone, In the turf a hole I found, And hid a soldier underground. Spring and daisies came apace; Grasses hide my hiding place; Grasses run like a green sea O'er the lawn up to my knee.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Running, Spring, Sea

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3446, Delphi Classics

Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful, Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles, Here I wander in April Cold, grey-headed; and still to my Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer, Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant; Spring, flower-planter in meadows, Child-conductor in willowy Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses: Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity: O child, happy are children!

Robert Louis Stevenson

Beautiful, Song, Children

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “New Poems and Variant Readings”, p.87, Read Books Ltd

I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Weed, Crazy, Writing

If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, Age, Youth

Robert Louis Stevenson (1968). “Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Louis Stevenson”

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Eye, Silence, Quiet

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.4823, Delphi Classics

If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Journey, Men, Looks

1878 An Inland Voyage,'The Oise in Flood'.

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, Mind, Forests

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.4944, e-artnow

Cruel children, crying babies, All grow up as geese and gabies, Hated, as their age increases, By their nephews and their nieces.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Baby, Children, Growing Up

Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.18, Sparklesoup LLC

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Health, Waste, Spendthrift

Virginibus Puerisque Ch. 5

Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Simple, Interesting, Humanity

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Mouths, Pity, Retorts

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.4691, e-artnow

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Children, Rivers, Littles

Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.13, Sparklesoup LLC

Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle

Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel, Horse, Bridges

Robert Louis Stevenson (2011). “A Child's Garden of Verses (兒童詩園)”, p.330, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Food, Orange, Cooking

Robert Louis Stevenson, “System”

When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Beautiful, Long, Looks

I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Running, Believe, Night

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Adventure Tales: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Wrecker, The Ebbe-Tide, St Ives, Island Nights' Entertainments, The Adventure of the Hansom Cab and more (Illustrated Edition): The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective, The Misadventures of John Nicholson, Adventures of David Balfour (Novels and short stories )”, p.105, e-artnow

With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Hope, Night, Broken

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Songs of Travel: And Other Verses”, p.36, The Floating Press