Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Youth now flees on feathered foot.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Feet Quotes

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on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Doors Quotes

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Luck Quotes , Aversion Quotes

The essence of love is kindness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Love Quotes , Marriage Quotes

The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Love Quotes , Life Quotes

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Father Quotes , Son Quotes

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this "ignoble tobagie" as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Men Quotes , Doe Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Men Quotes , Two Quotes

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Rain Quotes , Fall Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Food Quotes , Heart Quotes

If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Children Quotes , Trying Quotes

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Long Quotes

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Life Quotes , Retrospect Quotes

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Character Quotes , Weakness Quotes

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Men Quotes , Rings Quotes

And my heart springs up anew, Bright and confident and true, And the old love comes to meet me, in the dawning and the dew.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Life Quotes , Spring Quotes

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Men Quotes , Imagination Quotes

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other, both in mind and body.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Mind Quotes , World Quotes

Ice and iron cannot be welded.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Ice Quotes

An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes , Life Quotes , Success Quotes