Robert Louis Stevenson

If this is death, it is easier than life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Dead men don't bite”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

You must suffer me to go my own dark way.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Scotland has no unity except on the map”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“If ever a seaman wanted drugs, it’s me,”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We can only know others by ourselves.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is somebody who loves us with understanding, as well as emotion.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Time which none can bind, While flowing fast away, leaves love behind.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

— Robert Louis Stevenson

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Of what shall we be proud of if we are not proud of our friends?

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“One more step, Mr. Hands," said I, "and I'll blow your brains out! Dead men don't bite, you know," I added with…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“We now lay in towns, where nobody troubled us with questions; we had floated into civilised life, where people pass without salutation. ”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

— 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…

— 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

I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding.…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear!…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“It was one January morning, very early—a pinching, frosty morning—the cove all grey with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

In the other gardens And all up the vale, From the autumn bonfies See the smoke trail! Pleasant summer over And all…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The Cigarette had a mackintosh which put him more or less above these contrarieties.  But I had to bear the brunt uncovered. …

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The humiliation of their arms and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine made a sore pull on the endurance of this sensitive…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The story is told in fragmentary narratives written by a Doctor and a Lawyer, culminating in Jekyll’s own full statement of the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he…

— 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

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

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons…

— 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

“Half an hour from now, when I shall again and for ever reindue that hated personality, I know how I shall sit…

— Robert Louis Stevenson