Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes about Wife

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

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

Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Teacher, Wife

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Songs of Travel: And Other Verses”, p.37, The Floating Press

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.