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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

The obscurest epoch is today.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone lives by selling something.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

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