Top 456 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Louis Stevenson
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is 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.
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.
Everyone lives by selling something.
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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.
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Nothing like a little judicious levity.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
No man is useless while he has a friend.
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
The world has no room for cowards.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Wine is bottled poetry.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
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