816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable – not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.

The fog still slept on the wing above the drowned city, where the lamps glimmered like carbuncles; and through the muffle and smother of these fallen clouds, the procession of the town’s life was still rolling in through the great arteries with a sound as of a mighty wind.

You’re either my ship’s cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap’n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

I cannot tell if I was more tired or more grateful. Both at least, I was: tired as I never was before that night; and grateful to Gd as I trust I have been often, though never with more cause.

We are three very old friends, Lanyon; we shall not live to make others.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;.

It was a bitter cold winter, with long, hard frosts and heavy gales;.

The very flexibility and ease which make men’s friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.