Robert Louis Stevenson quotes

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, celebrated for his imaginative storytelling. His most famous works include "Treasure Island," "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde," and "Kidnapped." He influenced generations of writers and remains one of the most translated authors in the world. Here are 249 of his quotes:

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.

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)

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

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

So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

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

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Occupation: Scottish Novelist
Born: November 13, 1850
Died: December 3, 1894
Quotes count: 249
Wikipedia: Robert Louis Stevenson

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