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
being-thankful thankfulness fallen
The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
happiness simple mind
Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
inspirational-love love-is garden
To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.
dream reality rocks
This profusion of eccentricities, this dream in masonry and living rock is not a drop scene in a theatre, but a city in the world of reality.
happiness perspective entrepreneur
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
sympathy memories grateful
Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.
understanding emotion wells
A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.
achievement anything-in-life
Is there anything in life so disenchanting as achievement?
funny witty political
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
heartbreak truth lying
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
leisure saddles
Sit loosely in the saddle.
humility men two
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
jealousy war naked
Jealousy is the most radical primeval and naked form of admiration in war paint, so to speak.
proud be-proud ifs
Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?