Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

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.

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Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

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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.

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To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

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It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

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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.

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The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change-that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out.

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Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.

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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Still they are carolled and said - On wings they are carried - After the singer is dead And the maker buried.

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It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!

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When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

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Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

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O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

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I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.

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A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he is able.

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It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.

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I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

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Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.

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Sit loosely in the saddle.

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