816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say “give them up,” for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people.

This is still the strangest thing in all man’s travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.

There’s never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a’terward” – Long John Silver.

I was slowly losing hold of my original and better self, and becoming slowly incorporated with my second and worse.

Watch for the ace of spades, which is the sign of death, and the ace of clubs, which designates the official of the night.

Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile, he had borne himself to the lawyer with a sort of murderous mixture of timidity and boldness, and he spoke with a husky, whispering and somewhat broken voice; all these were points against him, but not all of these together could explain the hitherto unknown disgust, loathing and fear with which Mr. Utterson regarded him.

Every night in the year, four of us sat in the small parlour of the George at Debenham – the undertaker, and the landlord, and Fettes, and myself.

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity;.