Famous Quotes

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

• The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
• The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
• The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
• There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
• There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
• There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
• To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
• To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
• We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
• Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
• When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
• Wine is bottled poetry.
• You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
• You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?