Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSONI am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
-
-
The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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 -
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
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 -
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
To forget oneself is to be happy.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON -
Everyone lives by selling something.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON