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
love drinking food
Wine is bottled poetry.
strong memories men
He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere; he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn’t specify the point. He’s an extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No sir; I can make no hand of it; I can’t describe him. And it’s not want of memory; for I declare I can see him this moment.
memories class identity
The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.
littles blessedness hopefully
Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
inspirational bikers ethics-and-morals
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.
children army forests
Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.
forget forgetfulness oneself
To forget oneself is to be happy.
love relationship distance
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
unique spirit habit
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.
life business marketing
Everyone lives by selling something.
love inspirational life
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
strong identity idle
To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.
indigestion reap
He who sows hurry reaps indigestion.
happiness being-happy humor
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.