Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevensonwas a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and A Child's Garden of Verses...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth13 November 1850
men anecdotes littles
And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.
plant harvest seeds
Really don't choose every day from the harvest you experience but from the seeds you plant
character men hands
[T]he kingdom of heaven is of the childlike, of those who are easy to please, who love and who give pleasure. Mighty men of their hands, the smiters and the builders and the judges, have lived long and done sternly and yet preserved this lovely character; and among our carpet interests and twopenny concerns, the shame were indelible if we should lose it. Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.
art fate destiny
There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.
mind make-up-your-mind
Make up your mind to be happy.
hate writing i-hate
I hate to write, but I love to have written.
not-afraid ifs
I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.
mean writing literature
The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.
running believe night
I have never seen the sea quiet round Treasure Island. The sun might blaze overhead, the air be without a breath, the surface smooth and blue, but still these great rollers would be running along all the external coast, thundering and thundering by day and night; and I scarce believe there is one spot in the island where a man would be out of earshot of their noise.
law choices cigar
I smoke a pipe abroad, because To all cigars I much prefer it, And as I scorn you social laws, My choice has nothing to deter it.
lying people silence
Friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway. The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
wish
I wish these flies would piss off.
joy missing
To miss the joy is to miss everything.
men giving people
It is better to be a fool than to be dead. It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!