"The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly…" — Robert Louis Stevenson

"The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing."

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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364 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson has 364 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign…
I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting…
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of…
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we…
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the…
Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon…
To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of…
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.

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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. — Teresa of Avila
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate… — Teresa of Avila
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. — Francis Bacon
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. — Pearl Bailey
I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too. — Josephine Baker
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou
A church debt is the devil's salary. — Henry Ward Beecher
You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between… — Hans Bender
God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The… — Ezra Taft Benson
A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an… — Ezra Taft Benson
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his… — Ambrose Bierce

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