"Sir, with no intention to take offence, I……" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth."
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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 money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
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To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism…
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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact…
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I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to…
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To give money to a woman - and here I must speak as a man - is to deny her…
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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