Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

Wrong, Morals, Depend

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

Nothing, Once, Married

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

Happy, Duty, Sow

Everyone lives by selling something.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone, Lives, Selling

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.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nature, Beauty, Men

The world has no room for cowards.
Robert Louis Stevenson

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Strong, Sense, Personal

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Motivational, Life, Exercise

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

Top, Tree, Ancestors

No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Friend, While, Useless

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Silence, Often, Lies

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

Saying, Soul, Alive

I've a grand memory for forgetting.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Forgetting, Memory, Grand

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Courage, Yourself, Others

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendship, Marriage, Police

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Great, Inspired, Mankind

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Good, Poor

Nothing like a little judicious levity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing, Levity, Judicious

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Business, Neglect, Devotion

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

Down, Everyone, Later

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

Happy, Sure, Full

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel, Hopefully, Arrive

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Somewhere, Sane, Spot

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

Friends, Proud, Shall

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

Dead, Until, Language

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: November 13, 1850

Died: December 3, 1894

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