816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave.

At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion.

...in my own perilous position, and above all, in the remarkable game that I saw Silver now engaged upon-keeping the mutineers together with one hand, and grasping, with the other, after every means, possible and impossible, to make his peace and save his miserable life.

Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.

In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten [...], and I could not doubt that he hoped to seize upon the treasure, find and board the Hispanola under cover of night, cut every honest throat about that island, and sail away as he had at first intended, laden with crimes and riches.

In the immediate nearness of the gold, all else had been forgotten.

¿Acaso hay algo en la vida que decepcione tanto como lograr lo que se quiere?

To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.