Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Great, Proud, Tell

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Human, Lie, Down

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Yourself, Someone, Else

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Evil, Human

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Success, Him, Question

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

Marriage, Selfish, Moral

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Gardening, Care, Eyes

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Health, Lose, Waste

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Love, Respect, May

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Another, Conquer, Curiosity

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Action, Inevitable

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Alone, Lives, Bread

Nothing made by brute force lasts.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing, Made, Force

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Young, Old, Last

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics, Thought, Necessary

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

Love, Body, Ourselves

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Action, Inevitable

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Truth, Enemy, Friends

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

Happy, Sure, Full

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

Made, Perfect, Solitude

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Happy, Saying

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Change, Everything, Same

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Hard, Vanity, Obstinate

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

Live, Another, Series

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Pretty, Though

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: November 13, 1850

Died: December 3, 1894

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