816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.

So I must have lain for hours, continually beaten to and fro upon the billows, now and again wetted with flying sprays, and never ceasing to expect death at the next plunge.

We must lay to, if you please, and keep a bright lookout. It’s trying on a man, I know. It would be pleasanter to come to blows. But there’s no help for it till we know our men. Lay to, and whistle for a wind, that’s my view.

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

Overhead, the wild huntsman of the storm passed continuously in one blare of mingled noises; screaming wind, straining timber, lashing rope’s end, pounding block and bursting sea contributed; and I could have thought there was at times another, a more piercing, a more human note, that dominated all, like the wailing of an angel; I could have thought I knew the angel’s name, and that his wings were black.

It is always a bad sign when the lower classes laugh: their taste in humour is both poor and sinister;.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

I was once more face to face with the big bonfire that occupies the kernel of our system.

He had taken me aside one day and promised me a silver fourpenny on the first of every month if I would only keep my “weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg” and let him know the moment he appeared.