816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

But besides that I was of an unforgiving disposition from my birth, slow to take offense, slower to forget it, and now incensed both against my companion and myself.

No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.

The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.

It is a good thing to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy

This is a handy cove, and a pleasant sittyated grog-shop. Much company, mate?

It was a master surgeon, him that ampytated me - out of college and all - Latin by the bucket, and what not; but he was hanged like a dog, and sun-dried like the rest, at Corso Castle.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

A man cannot destroy the savage in him by denying its impulses. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

You can't begin and then stop. If you begin, you must keep on beginning: that's the truth. No rest for the wicked.