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 STEVENSONThe body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
-
-
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Wine is bottled poetry.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.
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 -
Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON






