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
truth enemy weapons
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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.
memories tree ancestry
Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.
memories forget
I've a grand memory for forgetting.
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.
desire world forests
For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.
desire income wealth
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.
summer ideas long
You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.
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.
running men race
A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.
youth
Youth is wholly experimental.