Robert Louis Stevenson Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Robert Louis Stevenson quotes, Robert Louis Stevenson sayings, and Robert Louis Stevenson proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. Robert Louis Stevenson
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of generous acts. Robert Louis Stevenson
Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer. Robert Louis Stevenson
The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget. Robert Louis Stevenson
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. Robert Louis Stevenson
There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape. Robert Louis Stevenson
In the harsh face of life faith can read a bracing gospel. Robert Louis Stevenson
Money alone is only a mean; it presupposes a man to use it. The rich man can go where he pleases, but perhaps please himself nowhere. He can buy a library or visit the whole world, but perhaps has neither patience to read nor intelligence to see.... The purse may be full and the heart empty. He may have gained the world and lost himself; and with all his wealth around him ... he may live as blank a life as any tattered ditcher. Robert Louis Stevenson
The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner. Robert Louis Stevenson
Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. Robert Louis Stevenson
The rain is falling all around, it falls on field and tree. It rains on the umbrellas here, and on the ships at sea. Robert Louis Stevenson
Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; / Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore / Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn / Disturbs the eternal sleep, / But in the stillness far withdrawn / Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep. Robert Louis Stevenson
A friend is a gift you give yourself. Robert Louis Stevenson
LOVE - what is love? A great and aching heart; / Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair. / Life - what is life? Upon a moorland bare / To see love coming and see love depart. Robert Louis Stevenson
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. Robert Louis Stevenson
To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside. Robert Louis Stevenson
Love — what is love? A great and aching heart; / Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair. / Life — what is life? Upon a moorland bare / To see love coming and see love depart. Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. Robert Louis Stevenson
I consider the success of my day based on the seeds I sow, not the harvest I reap. Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world, which remain unknown even to ourselves, or when they are disclosed, surprise nobody so much as the benefactor. Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is like life, it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. Robert Louis Stevenson
It blows a snowing gale in the winter of the year; The boats are on the sea and the crews are on the pier. The needle of the vane, it is veering to and fro, A flash of sun is on the veering of the vane. Autumn leaves and rain, The passion of the gale. Robert Louis Stevenson
For the forest takes away from you all excuse to die. There is nothing here to cabin or thwart your free desires. Here all impudence of the brawling world reach you no more. Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all travelers in the desert of life and the best we can find in our journey is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson