"Every child can remember laying his head in……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies."
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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson has 364 quotes on this site.
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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of…
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The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to…
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For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however…
— Winston Churchill
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
— Kofi Annan
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God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and…
— Jean Anouilh
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Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do…
— Bernard Law Montgomery
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Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's…
— Barack Obama
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The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to…
— Colman McCarthy
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If you are situated at a great distance from the enemy, and the strength of the two armies is equal,…
— Sun Tzu
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The supreme excellence is not to win a hundred victories in a hundred battles. The supreme excellence is to subdue…
— Sun Tzu
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When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out…
— Duke of Wellington
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