Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 November 1850
Robert Louis Stevenson quotes about
easy quarrels
A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.
hands argument cowardice
They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;
goes-on thunderstorm strive
We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
smell green bows
One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.
children naughty toys
The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.
night men waiting
The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.
flower civilization physicians
The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
matter cards life-is
Life is not a matter of holding good cards
work progress
Don't ever confuse motion with progress.
views speak minutes
Nobody speaks of a beautifful view for 5 minutes
land traveller foreign-lands
There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.
boys weather world
When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.
joy missing
To miss the joy is to miss everything.
children dark two
The ideal story is that of two people who go into love step for step, with a fluttered consciousness, like a pair of children venturing together into a dark room.