| 43 Famous Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean”
Writing Quotes |
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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 |
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“Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
Consequences Quotes |
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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 |
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“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean”
Language Quotes |
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“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean”
Literature Quotes |
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“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
Literature Quotes |
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“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
Travel Quotes |
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“Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.”
Universe Quotes |
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“Wine is bottled poetry.”
Wine Quotes |
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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 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 Source: Crabbed Age
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“Once I guessed right,
And I got credit by't;
Thrice I guessed wrong,
And I kept my credit on.”
Wrongs Quotes 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 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 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 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 Source: Child's Garden of Verses--The Cow
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“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
Courage Quotes |
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“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
Business Quotes |
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“If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.”
Morals Quotes |
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“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
Politics Quotes |
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“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?”
Weakness Quotes |
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“Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind.”
Acceptance Quotes |
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“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.”
Books Quotes |
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“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”
Dogs Quotes |
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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