When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONThe world is full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
-
-
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Nothing made by brute force lasts.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON