Top 25 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson of 442 - Page 18

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

Science, Men, Engineering

We live thetime that a match flickers; we pop the corkof a ginger-beer bottle, and the earthquake swallows us on the instant. Is it not odd, is it not incongruous, is it not, in the highest sense of human speech, incredible, that we should think so highly of the ginger-beer, and regard so little the devouring earthquake?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Beer, Thinking, Earthquakes

1881 Virginibus Puerisque,'Aes Triplex'.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Book, Long, Curiosity

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.1498, e-artnow

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness, People, Mystery

Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “An Inland Voyage: Stevenson's Vol. 20”, p.13, VM eBooks

Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Unhappy, Jekyll, Confession

Robert Louis Stevenson (1993). “The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: The Merry Men and Other Stories”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Rain, Passion, Autumn

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3781, Delphi Classics

In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Faith, Faces, Harsh

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.452, e-artnow

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Smell, Bows, New Life

Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.3738, Delphi Classics

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Experience, World, Littles

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.4572, e-artnow

Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Faith, Victory, Looks

Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne (1910*). “"Virginibus puerisque" and other papers. Memories and portraits. Familiar studies of men and books”

It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, Voice, Listening

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Annotated Treasure Island with English Grammar Exercises: by Robert Louie Stevenson (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.79, Powell Publications, LLC

The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

Robert Louis Stevenson

California, Earth, Palate

The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Flower, Civilization, Physicians

Must we to bed indeed? Well then, Let us arise and go like men, And face with an undaunted tread The long black passage up to bed.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, Long, Black

'A Child's Garden of Verses' (1885) 'North-West Passage. Good-Night'

The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Children, Naughty, Papa

'A Child's Garden of Verses' (1885) 'System'

It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Civilization, Mind, Example

Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “Robert Louis Stevenson”