816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.

He recollected his courage.

We had each of us some whimsy in the brain, which we believed more than anything else, and which discoloured all experience to its own shade.

Let any one speak long enough, he will get believers.

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly.

If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit, you would catch them!

Every night in the year, four of us sat in the small parlour of the George at Debenham - the undertaker, and the landlord, and Fettes, and myself.

Although I express myself with some degree of pleasantry, the purport of my words is entirely serious.