Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.

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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

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Anyone can carry their burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do their work, however hard, for one day.

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Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

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In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.

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The smack of California earth shall linger on the palate of your grandson.

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The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

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It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.

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There is but one art, to omit.

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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 am not sure whether he's sane. -If there's any doubt about the matter, he is.

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They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

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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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The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.

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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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