I lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched skiff and devoutly recommended my spirit to its Maker. At the end of the straits, I made sure we must fall into some bar of raging breakers, where all my troubles would be ended speedily; and though I could, perhaps, bear to die, I could not bear to look upon my fate as it approached.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering. And.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I never seen good come o’ goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don’t bite.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Porque ahora todos los caminos le daban lo mismo; todos la llevaban igualmente al infierno.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Cap’n,” said he, at length, with that same uncomfortable smile, “here’s my old shipmate, O’Brien; s’pose you was to heave him overboard. I ain’t partic’lar as a rule, and I don’t take no blame for settling his hash; but I don’t reckon him ornamental, now do you?

— Robert Louis Stevenson

If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit, you would catch them!

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I love my sins like other people.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The man’s tongue is fit to frighten the French. Another.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

And at that moment the Lord’s own hand out of the heavens struck the Horror where it stood; the old, dead, desecrated corpse of the witch-biddy, so long kept from the grave and herded around by demons, flared up like sulfur fire and fell in ashes to the ground; the thunder followed, peal on throbbing peal, the roaring rain upon the back of that; and Mr Soulis leapt through the garden hedge and ran, with scream upon scream, for the village.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It was a lovely body, but the inmate, the soul, was more than worthy of that lodging.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Well, well,” he said, at last, “duty first and pleasure afterwards, as you might have said yourself, Silver.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable;.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

But the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound at last overcame the suggestions of alarm.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched skiff and devoutly recommended my spirit to its Maker. At the end of the straits, I made sure we must fall into some bar of raging breakers, where all my troubles would be ended speedily; and though I could, perhaps, bear to die, I could not bear to look upon my fate as it approached.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I wish you to judge for me entirely,’ was the reply. ‘I have lost confidence in myself.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The Old Buccaneer.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The drug had no discriminating action; it was neither diabolical nor divine; it but shook the doors of the prisonhouse of my disposition; and like the captives of Philippi, that which stood within ran forth.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The name of Captain Flint, though it was strange to me, was well enough known to some there and carried a great weight of terror.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest;.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A mendacious umbrella is a sign of great moral degradation.

— Robert Louis Stevenson
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