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Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish author (1850 - 1894)

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

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might; to eat with apple tart.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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?

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

The world is so full of a number of things I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Wine is bottled poetry.

A friend is a present you give yourself.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

You can't touch pitch and not be mucked.

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

It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.