816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

There is but one art, to omit.

I who all the Winter through, Cherished other loves than you And kept hands with hoary policy in marriage-bed and pew; Now I know the false and true, For the earnest sun looks through, And my old love comes to meet me in the dawning and the dew.

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

A man finds he has been wrong at every stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child.