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
girl men boys
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.
luck aversion indifference
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
sad loneliness house
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
political politics parliament
We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.
years essence progress
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
true-success labour
The true success is to labour.
design world different
The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.
forever watches remember
It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.
youth
Youth is wholly experimental.
credit thrice
Once I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.
dark garden house
Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.
heart character love-is
To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share in all honorable curiosities, to be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness-these are the gifts of fortune which money cannot buy, and without which money can buy nothing.
money liberty pay
The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
happiness done good-work
I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.