Men Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward" - Long John Silver

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The saddest object in civilization, and to my mind the greatest confession of its failure, is the man who can work, who…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A man should stop his ears against paralyzing terror and run the race that is set before him with a single mind.

— 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…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad.…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Respectability is a very good thing in its way, but it does not rise superior to all considerations. I would not for…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The greatest engineering is the engineering of men.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

If you wish the pick of men and women, take a good bachelor and a good wife

— Robert Louis Stevenson

But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Every man is his own doctor of divinity, in the last resort.

— Robert Louis Stevenson