Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish author (1850 - 1894)


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

Robert Louis Stevenson -
- 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.

Robert Louis Stevenson -
- 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.

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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?

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson -
- Wine is bottled poetry.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson -
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson -
- To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson -
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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- The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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

Robert Louis Stevenson -
- Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson -
- The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

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

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

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

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- No man is useless while he has a friend.

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- A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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- A friend is a present you give yourself.

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

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- Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson -
- ...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.