Famous Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Below are famous quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson - Scottish author (1850 - 1894).

...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

A friend is a present you give yourself.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Marriage: a long conversation chequered by disputes.

No man is useless while he has a friend.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might;
to eat with apple tart.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the World, and the best that we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Wine is bottled poetry.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

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