816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that I was suddenly, in the top fit of my delirium, struck through the heart by a cold thrill of terror.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Saints are sinners who kept on going.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Doctors is all swabs.

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others.

The devil, depend upon it, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

He was in that humour when a man will cut off his nose to spite his face

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.