816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others...

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

The San Francisco Stock Exchange was the place that continuously pumped up the savings of the lower classes into the pockets of the millionaires.

All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.