816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!

Hosts loved to detain the dry lawyer, when the light-hearted and loose-tongued had already their foot on the threshold; they liked to sit awhile in his unobtrusive company, practicing for solitude, sobering their minds in the man’s rich silence after the expense and strain of gaiety.

No baggage – there was the secret of existence.

I lived on rum, I tell you. It’s been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.

He was wild when he was young; a long while ago to be sure; but in the law of God, there is no statute of limitations.

Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange as our actual adventures.

I felt no repugnance- I knew I was wicked, ten times more wicked, and that thought both braced and delighted me.

But a word once spoken who can recapture it?

It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunity; and that was the lawyer’s way. His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.