Top 25 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson of 442 - Page 9

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

Men, Enough, Should

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Success, Country

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

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Class, San Francisco, Pockets

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street. And does it not seem hard to you, When all the sky is clear and blue, And I should like so much to play, To have to go to bed by day?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Summer, Spring, Winter

A Child's Garden of Verses "Bed in Summer" l. 1 (1885)

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, Devil, Bottles

Treasure Island ch. 1 (1883). Stevenson took the phrase dead man's chest from a pirate name for an isle in Charles Kingsley, At Last, ch. 1 (1870).

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

Robert Louis Stevenson

Drinking, Dirty, Alcohol

Robert Louis Stevenson (1884). “Treasure Island”, p.8

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine, Shining, Bottles

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.473, e-artnow

The world has no room for cowards.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage, Coward, World

Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson (1905). “Works”

Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Acceptance, People, Pills

Virginibus Puerisque "Crabbed Age and Youth" (1881)

I have been made to learn that the doom and burden of our life is bound forever on man’s shoulders; and when the attempt is made to cast it off, it but returns upon us with more unfamiliar and more awful pressure.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, Forever, Awful

Robert Louis Stevenson (2002). “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: And Other Stories of the Supernatural”, p.78, Scholastic Inc.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will make a palace fit for you and me Of green days in forests and blue days at sea.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Song, Morning, Stars

'Songs of Travel' (1896) 'I will make you brooches and toys for your delight'

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Song, Fall, 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.2719, e-artnow

There is a certain frame of mind to which a cemetery is, if not an antidote, at least an alleviation. If you are in a fit of the blues, go nowhere else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Depression, Mind, Fit

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.4858, e-artnow

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Sad, Loneliness, House

Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.96, Cooper Square Press

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Perfect, Solitude, Fellowship

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

Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Littles, Hopefully, Blessedness

'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'El Dorado'

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Office, Nautical, Boat

1878 An Inland Voyage,'The Royal Sport Nautique'.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendship, Marriage, Police

"Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers".

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Men, Wife, Alcohol

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.586, e-artnow

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Firsts, Steps, Worship

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage, Husband, Selfish

'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Virginibus Puerisque, pt. 1'

Children are certainly too good to be true.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Baby, Children, Too Good To Be True

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “The Collected Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.200, Jazzybee Verlag

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Happiness, Joy

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by a very early speech: 'Mama,' said I, 'I have drawed a man. Shall I draw his soul now?

Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Real, Men

Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley (1911). “The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson”