Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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

Young, Ten, Pleasant

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Money, Liberty, Sometimes

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, End, Become

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Wisdom, Mediocrity, Discourage

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

Nothing, Friend, Silence

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Sometimes, Devil

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

Mean, Him, Wish

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Foreign, Traveler, Lands

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

Give, Brave, Year

He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Hurry, Reaps, Sows

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Nature, Looking, Spirit

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Aversion, Regard, Bordering

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Health, Lose, Waste

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage, Long, Disputes

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

Long, Friend, Others

The obscurest epoch is today.
Robert Louis Stevenson

To forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Happy, Forget, Oneself

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

Ashamed, Parliament

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

Him, Sometimes, Against

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.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Great, Proud, Tell

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

Yourself, Someone, Else

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Life, Challenge, Accept

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Good, Evil, Human

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Success, Him, Question

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage, Selfish, Moral

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: November 13, 1850

Died: December 3, 1894

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