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
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!
boys weather world
When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.
men long care
But that is the object of long living, that man should cease to care about life.
land traveller foreign-lands
There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.
character why-not weakness
Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
goes-on thunderstorm strive
We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.
work progress
Don't ever confuse motion with progress.
matter cards life-is
Life is not a matter of holding good cards
flower civilization physicians
The physician...is the flower (such as it is) of our civilization.
night men waiting
The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed, it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.
children naughty toys
The child that is not clean and neat, With lots of toys and things to eat, He is a naughty child, I'm sure-- Or else his dear Papa is poor.