"The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly…" — Robert Louis Stevenson
"The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly wide"
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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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Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege.
— Keith Crown
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How astonishingly does the chance of leaving the world improve a sense of its natural beauties upon us. Like poor…
— John Keats
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Judging from the way they sat and goggled at the drag on the stage it was obvious that they were…
— Eric Hiscock
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But the most amazing, almost miraculous news is that the majority of the building is still intact. Due to one…
— Muriel Gray
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Some people think that mathematics is a serious business that must always be cold and dry; but we think mathematics…
— Ronald Graham
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Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
— Andy Hobsbawm
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The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.
— John Szarkowski
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So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the…
— Francine Prose
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Women share this planet 50/ 50 and they are underrepresented -- their potential astonishingly untapped.
— Emma Watson
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If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task…
— Arne Jacobsen
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The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling.
— Dorothy Kilgallen
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