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
brother book adventure
We were to found a University magazine. A pair of little, active brothers-Livingstone by name, great skippers on the foot, great rubbers of the hands, who kept a book-shop over against the University building-had been debauched to play the part of publishers. We four were to be conjuct editors and, what was the main point of the concern, to print our own works; while, by every rule of arithmetic-that flatterer of credulity-the adventure must succeed and bring great profit. Well, well: it was a bright vision.
science men engineering
The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.
reading writing easy
It takes hard writing to make easy reading.
children rivers littles
Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.
death mother children
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often makes its entrance from the mother's corpse.
happiness men focus
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
happiness people mystery
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.
faith faces harsh
In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel.
time epoch
The obscurest epoch is to-day.
father son jekyll
Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.
jekyll may
Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.
stones jekyll hills
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...
happiness forget oneself
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
doubt matter not-sure
-I am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.