816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the stars to see, Bread I dip in the river There's the life for a man like me, There's the life for ever.

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand.

Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.