You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Short About Life Journey About Hope Sports Travel

The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Ice and iron cannot be welded.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The true success is to labour.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudences of the brawling world reach you no more.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Once I guessed right, And I got credit by’t; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Youth is wholly experimental.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The very flexibility and ease which make men’s friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

You’re either my ship’s cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap’n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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