816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

[...] the vast mass of mankind are incapable of doing anything reasonably well, art among the rest. The worthless artist would not improbably have been a quite incompetent baker.

He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier.

The thoughts of his mind, besides, were of the gloomiest dye; and when he glanced at the companion of his drive, he was conscious of some touch of that terror of the law and the law’s officers, which may at times assail the most honest.

Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny after ward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honour. It is human at least, if not divine.

... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both...

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

He would be aware of the great field of lamps of a nocturnal city; then of the figure of a man walking swiftly; then of a child running from the doctor's; and then these met, and that human Juggernaut trod the child down and passed on regardless of her screams.

The young demand joy like a right - the old only wish to be spared unbearable pain." Robert Louis Stevenson