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
beautiful perspective sides
Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.
ignorance self essence
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.
proud be-proud ifs
Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?
journey men looks
If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.
views years use
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.
fighter classic
Am I no a bonny fighter?
entrepreneur cures parts-of-life
A great part of life consists of contemplating what we cannot cure.
scruples ends standing
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
ice iron
Ice and iron cannot be welded.
becoming capable
Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.
civilization mind example
It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. Robinson Crusoe was rather a moralist than a pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the civilised mind striving to express itself under adverse circumstances as we have ever met with.
experience way facts
Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.
mouths pity appeals
To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.
faith victory unqualified
Hope looks for unqualified success; but Faith counts certainly on failure, and takes honorable defeat to be a form of victory.