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
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.
wish
I wish these flies would piss off.
law choices cigar
I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.
running believe night
I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.
not-afraid ifs
I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.
plant harvest seeds
Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant
fighting risk gentleman
Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.
school college vitality
Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.
get-well men miracle
By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
spirit mockery
The spirit, Sir, is one of mockery.