Friendship Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?

— Robert Louis Stevenson

No man is useless while he has a friend.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Marriage is a friendship recognized by the police.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The last I think; for, O poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

There is nothing but God's grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we can find in our travels is an…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest…

— 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

We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

He is not dead, this friend; not dead, Gone some few, trifling steps ahead, And nearer to the end; So that you,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“In short, the first duty of a man is to speak; that is his chief business in this world; and talk, which…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Happiness and goodness, according to canting moralists, stand in the relation of effect and cause. There was never anything less proved or…

— 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

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

“Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell, for the love accorded us this…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find is an honest friend. He is…

— 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 correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson