816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Utterson became so used to the unvarying character of these reports, that he fell off little by little in the frequency of his visits.

A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life’s choicest blessings.

If you would grow great and stately, You must try to walk sedately.

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green – one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

God bless me, the man seems hardly human! Something troglodytic, shall we say?

The workpeople, to be sure, were most annoyingly slow, but time cured that.

In the bottle the acids were long ago resolved; the imperial dye had softened with time, as the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards, was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London.