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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes about Devil

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Tom Hubbard, Robert Louis Stevenson (1995). “Seeking Mr. Hyde: Studies in Robert Louis Stevenson, Symbolism, Myth, and the Pre-modern”

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!

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).

My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring

Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, second edition”, p.86, Broadview Press

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

Robert Louis Stevenson (2010). “Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde”, p.4, Bibliolis Books