Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

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Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

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Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

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The fact is, we are much more afraid of life than our ancestors, and cannot find it inourhearts either tomarry or not tomarry.Marriage isterrifying, but so is a cold and forlorn old age.

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You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

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And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.

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The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

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You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

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This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

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Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in time of sorrow.

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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 hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

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

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All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

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In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all the summer flowers, The red fire blazes, the grey smoke towers. Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all, Flowers in the summer Fires in the fall!

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Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest

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