816 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Passion... like other violent excitements...throws up not only what is best, but what is worst and smallest, in men's characters.

Bed in the bush with stars to see, / Bread I dip in the river — / There's the life for a man like me, / There's the life for ever.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule) no woman should marry a teetotaller, or a man who does not smoke.

How do you like to go up in a swing, / Up in the air so blue? / Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing / Ever a child can do! / Up in the air and over the wall, / Till I can see so wide, / River and trees and cattle and all / Over the countryside-- / Till I look down on the garden green, / Down on the roof so brown-- / Up in the air I go flying again, / Up in the air and down!

If you keep drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel.

When you first girded for this arduous track, and under various whimsical pretexts endowed another with your damned defects, could you have dreamed in your despondent vein.

Good talk is like an impromptu piece of acting where each should represent himself to greatest advantage.

From time to time, talk becomes effective, conquering like war, widening like boundaries of knowledge like an exploration.

Natural talk like plowing, should turn up a large surface of life, rather than dig mines.