Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894The quotations of
Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish novelist and poet
1850–1894
39 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Friendship and Good & Evil.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books (1882).Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
“Yoshida-Torajiro”, Familiar Studies of Men and Books, p. 175 (1902).- Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
- Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881), El Dorado.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)Many’s a long night I’ve dreamed of cheese — toasted mostly.
Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 15, The Man of the Island.In contextI regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
An Inland Voyage (1878).- Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes (1878).
- An Inland Voyage (1878), Ch. III, “The Royal Sport Nautique”.
- “Lay Morals” Ch. 4, in Lay Morals and Other Essays (1911).
Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.
Complete Works, vol. 26, Reflections and Remarks on Human Life, section 4.- Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
