816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese -toasted, mostly

You'd be as rich as kings if you could find it, and you know it's here, and you stand there skulking. There wasn't one of you dared face Bill, and I did it--a blind man! And I'm to lose my chance for you! I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach! If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit you would catch them still.

Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other. Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man) had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome. This, too, was myself.

Ah, efendim, insanı dinlenmekten alıkoyan şey hasta bir vicdandır.

A good conscience is eight parts of courage.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

It is the proof of intelligence, the proof of not being a barbarian, to be able to enter into something outside of oneself, something that does not touch one's next neighbour in the city omnibus.