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
somewhere-else preparation way
Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
serious degrees pleasantries
Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious.
marriage husband selfish
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
years giving joy
An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.
suicide devil care
Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest
happiness world domination
Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.
heart white apples
The friendly cow, all red and white, I love with all my heart; She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.
home tongue teeth
When the teeth are shut the tongue is at home.
simple interesting humanity
Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.
death past gone
He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you, too, once past the bend, Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.
death lying home
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be: Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.
jealousy war naked
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.
color water mind
A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.
rain passion autumn
It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale.