Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy, Sure, Full

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel, Hopefully, Arrive

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Somewhere, Sane, Spot

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
Robert Louis Stevenson

Friends, Proud, Shall

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Dead, Until, Language

It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Young, Ten, Pleasant

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Money, Liberty, Sometimes

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, End, Become

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage, Laughter, Wife

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

Nothing, Friend, Silence

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Mean, Him, Wish

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Foreign, Traveler, Lands

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Give, Brave, Year

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Hurry, Reaps, Sows

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nature, Looking, Spirit

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Aversion, Regard, Bordering

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage, Long, Disputes

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Long, Friend, Others

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Down, Everyone, Later

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Sometimes, Devil

The obscurest epoch is today.
Robert Louis Stevenson

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Once, Style

To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy, Forget, Oneself

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Ashamed, Parliament

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Him, Sometimes, Against

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: November 13, 1850

Died: December 3, 1894

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