43 Famous Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
11/13/1850 - 12/3/1894
Also Known As:
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
Robert L. Stevenson
Robert-Louis Stevenson
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About Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
A literary celebrity during his lifetime, Stevenson now ranks among the 26 most translated authors in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Marcel Schwob, Vladimir Nabokov, J. M. Barrie, and G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins."
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Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.
Cannibalism
Quotes, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
Duty
Quotes, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of
mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when
it made a cathedral.
Churches
Quotes, by Robert Louis Stevenson , Source: Inland Voyage
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A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his
career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at
last entirely right.
Wrongs
Quotes, by Robert Louis Stevenson , Source: Crabbed Age
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It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the
very foremost badge of modern civilization--the Urim and Thummim
of respectability. . . . So strongly do we feel on this point,
indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess
really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise.
Umbrellas
Quotes, by Robert Louis Stevenson , Source: Philosophy of Umbrellas
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It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of
Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index
of social position. . . . Crusoe was rather a moralist than a
pietist, and his leaf-umbrella is as fine an example of the
civilized mind striving to express itself under adverse
circumstances as we have ever met with.
Umbrellas
Quotes, by Robert Louis Stevenson , Source: Philosophy of Umbrellas, written in collaboration with J.W. Ferrier
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Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the
individual who carries them. . . . May it not be said of the
bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the
streets "with a lie in their right hand?" . . . Except in a very
few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not
by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so
by art, and yet have failed--have expended their patrimony in the
purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically
lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and strunken
purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and
borrowing for the remainder of their lives.
Umbrellas
Quotes, by Robert Louis Stevenson , Source: Philosophy of Umbrellas
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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.
Cows
Quotes, by Robert Louis Stevenson , Source: Child's Garden of Verses--The Cow
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