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It is always a bad sign when the lower classes laugh: their taste in humour is both poor and sinister;
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Watch for the ace of spades, which is the sign of death, and the ace of clubs, which designates the official of the night.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Thems that die'll be the lucky ones.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The best things in life are nearest, breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales;
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I hate to write, but I love to have written.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The moment I choose, I can be rid of Mr. Hyde
— Robert Louis Stevenson
You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task.
— 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
Try as I like to find the way, I never can get back by day, Nor can remember plain and clear The curious music that I hear.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
15 men on the dead mans chest - yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The man who has forgotten to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. Robert Louis Stevenson
— Linda Dillow
man is not truly one, but two
— Robert Louis Stevenson
He was breaking his fast on white wine and raw onions, in order to keep up the character of martyr, I conclude.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
And 'Oh man!' quo he, 'am I no a bonny fighter?
— Robert Louis Stevenson
He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask." "A
— Robert Louis Stevenson
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Idleness does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formualries of the ruling class.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
His affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Well! marriage is like death, it comes to all.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!
— Robert Louis Stevenson
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Every man has a sane spot somewhere.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
about as emotional as a bagpipe.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
As I looked there came, I thought a change - he seemed to swell - his face became suddenly black and the features seemed to melt and alter ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The secret to a happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it?
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The spirit of delight comes in small ways.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
You may lay to that.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
— Francine Pascal
The essence of love is kindness.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If thy morals make thee dreary, depend upon it they are wrong
— Robert Louis Stevenson
One more step, Mr. Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you know," I added with a chuckle.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Baldric; but he made a remark that seems worthy of record.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I awoke on the fifth morning with a brightness of anticipation that seemed to challenge fate.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
but you're as smart as paint.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
There is but one art, to omit.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
ChilYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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
To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Look out for squalls when you find it, and you will readily believe how little taste I found
— Robert Louis Stevenson
When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
All day he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass telescope;
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move
— Robert Davis Stevenson
You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others ...
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Sank or plundered. The sums are the scoundrel's share,
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
To travel hopefully is better than to have arrived.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The HISPANIOLA still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Rogerthe black flag of piracy
flying from her peak. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I felt no repugnance- I knew I was wicked, ten times more wicked, and that thought both braced and delighted me.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I've a grand memory for forgetting,
— Robert Louis Stevenson