816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

With the half of a broken hope for a pillow at night That somehow the right is the right And the smooth shall bloom from the rough: Lord, if that were enough?

If you want a person’s faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Thems that die’ll be the lucky ones.

The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I’m bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.

I incline to Cain’s heresy,” he used to say quaintly: “I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

O God! I screamed, and “O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes – pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death – there stood Henry Jekyll.”