Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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

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Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

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If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

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Had be been Shakespeare, he would then have written Troilus and Cressidato brand the offending sex; but being only a little dog, he began to bite them.

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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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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

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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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Keep busy at something: a busy person never has time to be unhappy.

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Blows the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying, Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, My heart remembers how!

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Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.

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To forget oneself is to be happy.

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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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Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.

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The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.

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Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

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Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

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Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert.

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When loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in the shadows Comes again to me The gift of the tongues of the lea, The gift of the tongues of meadows. So when the earth is alive with gods, And the lusty ploughman breaks the sod, And the grass sings in the meadows, And the flowers smile in the shadows, Sits my heart at ease, Hearing the song of the leas, Singing the songs of the meadows.

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