816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Once I guessed right, And I got credit by’t; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on.

Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Dead men don’t bite.

I slept after the prostration of the day, with a stringent and profound slumber which not even the nightmares that wrung me could avail to break.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.

Lastly no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke. It is not for nothing that this “ignoble tobagie” as Michelet calls it, spreads all over the world.

The woman who can manage, like the man who can fight, must never shrink from an encounter. The knight must not disgrace his weapons.

Both sides of me were in dead earnest.

Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest – Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!