Robert Louis Stevenson
Born in November 13, 1850 / Died in December 3, 1894 / United Kingdom / English
Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.
Even I, who had the tide going out and in before me in the bay, and even watched for the ebbs, the better to get my shellfish -- even I (I say) if I had sat down to think, instead of raging at my fate, must have soon guessed the secret, and got free. It was no wonder the fishers had not understood me. The wonder was rather that they had ever guessed my pitiful illusion, and taken the trouble to come back. I had starved with cold and hunger on that island for close upon one hundred hours. But for the fishers, I might have left my bones there, in pure folly. And even as it was, I had paid for it pretty dear, not only in past sufferings, but in my present case; being clothed like a beggar-man, scarce able to walk, and in great pain of my sore throat. I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
The world has no room for cowards.
You cannot run away from awareness; you must some time fight it out or perish. And if you be so, why not now and where you stand?
You can kill the body but not the spirit.
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.
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.
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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.
The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.
Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.
The obscurest epoch is today.
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.
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.
Pieces of eight! pieces of eight! pieces of eight!
