Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His most well known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped and the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Stevenson has been greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins". Read more on Wikipedia...

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by ctwillie almost 2 years ago

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by jimmydaniels about 2 years ago

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He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by DanCandy about 2 years ago

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Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by serendipity171 about 2 years ago

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Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by sanrio007 about 2 years ago

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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by thestephb over 2 years ago

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So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by quoto over 2 years ago

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"... no man is useless
while he has a friend."

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by quoto over 2 years ago

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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by thestephb over 2 years ago

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There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by thestephb over 2 years ago

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by bassmin over 2 years ago

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O God! I screamed, and “O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes – pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death – there stood Henry Jekyll.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by Kaye11 over 2 years ago

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Wine is bottled poetry.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by dajbelshaw over 2 years ago

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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by laura over 2 years ago

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Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by scosgrove over 2 years ago

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I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by scosgrove over 2 years ago

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Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by scosgrove over 2 years ago

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A friend is a gift you give yourself.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by scosgrove over 2 years ago

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The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Submitted by laura almost 3 years ago

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