Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

Scottish writer and poet

Lived from: 1850 - 1894

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 13 november 1850 Died: 3 december 1894

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  • Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.
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  • The bold may not live long, but the timid never live at all.
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  • The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.
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  • The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
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  • The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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  • The obscurest epoch is to-day.
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  • The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.
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  • The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
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  • The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
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  • The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
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  • There are not words enough in all Shakespeare to express the merest fraction of a man's experience in an hour.
    The Pocket R.L.S.
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  • There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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  • There is but one art, to omit.
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  • There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
    'Virginibus Puerisque ' An Apology for Idlers' (1881)
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  • To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
    The Complete Works (2015)
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  • To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
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  • To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
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  • To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
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  • To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.
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  • To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
    Virginibus Puerisque (1881) El Dorado
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