Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

About Robert Louis Stevenson:

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
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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.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The world has no room for cowards.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

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To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Author Bio

  • NameRobert Louis Stevenson
  • DescriptionScottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer
  • AliasesRobert Louis Balfour Stevenson
  • BornNovember 13, 1850
  • DiedDecember 3, 1894
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Essayist; Novelist; Short Story Writer; Children's Writer
  • WorksTreasure Island; Kidnapped; The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde