“Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.”
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Famous Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
“The world has no room for cowards.”
Source: Works
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
“The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.”
Source: Seeking Mr. Hyde: Studies in Robert Louis Stevenson, Symbolism, Myth, and the Pre-modern
“To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated Edition): Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Master of Ballantrae, St Ives: Adventures of a French Prisoner in England…
“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
“No man is useless while he has a friend.”
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
Source: An inland voyage. Travels with a donkey. The amateur emigrant. The Silverado squatters. Across the plains, with other memories and essays. The Silverado squatters. Across the plains, with other memories and essays
“Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?”
Source: Travels With a Donkey
Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.”
Source: Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21
“Every man has a sane spot somewhere.”
Source: Collected Adventure Tales: Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Catriona, The Wrecker, The Ebbe-Tide, St Ives, Island Nights' Entertainments, The Adventure of the Hansom Cab and more (Illustrated Edition): The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses, The Adventure of Prince Florizel and a Detective, The Misadventures of John Nicholson, Adventures of David Balfour (Novels and short stories )
Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
“You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.”
Source: Virginibus Puerisque
“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
“Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.”
Source: The Wrecker: Stevenson's Vol. 19
“We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.”
Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays
“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.”
“It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Short Story Collections by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped and Catriona
“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.”
Source: Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona
“I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.”
“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
“Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.”
Source: Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
Source: Travels in Hawaii
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.”
Source: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales
Source: Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)
Source: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. III (1887-1891)