816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

The sun was getting up, and mortal white he looked about the cutwater. But, there he was, and the six all dead – dead and buried.

And a brave lad you were, and smart too,” answered Silver, shaking hands so heartily that all the barrel shook, “and a finer figurehead for a gentleman of fortune I never clapped my eyes on.

Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.

Captain,” said the squire, “the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are aiming at. Would it not be wiser to take it in?” “Strike my colours!” cried the captain. “No, sir, not I;” and, as soon as he had said the words, I think we all agreed with him.

Yes,” he thought; “he is a doctor, he must know his own state and that his days are counted; and the knowledge is more than he can bear.

There is nothing but God’s grace. We walk upon it; we breathe it; we live and die by it; it makes the nails and axles of the universe.

And ‘Oh man!’ quo he, ’am I no a bonny fighter?

Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese – toasted mostly.

By his own account he must have lived his life among some of the wickedest men that God ever allowed upon the sea, and the language in which he told these stories shocked our plain country people almost as much as the crimes that he described.