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.'

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson
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. Robert Louis Stevenson
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! Robert Louis Stevenson
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. Robert Louis Stevenson
And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst. Robert Louis Stevenson
Good talk is like an impromptu piece of acting where each should represent himself to greatest advantage. Robert Louis Stevenson
From time to time, talk becomes effective, conquering like war, widening like boundaries of knowledge like an exploration. Robert Louis Stevenson
Natural talk like plowing, should turn up a large surface of life, rather than dig mines. Robert Louis Stevenson
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. Robert Louis Stevenson
Old is the tree and the fruit good, / Very old and thick the wood. / Woodman, is your courage stout? / Beware! the root is wrapped about / Your mother's heart, your father's bones; / And like the mandrake comes with groans. Robert Louis Stevenson
I saw you toss the kites on high / And blow the birds about the sky; / And all around I heard you pass, / Like ladies' skirts across the grass-- / O wind, a-blowing all day long, / O wind, that sings so loud a song! Robert Louis Stevenson
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise. Robert Louis Stevenson
May the Christmas morning make us happy to be thy children, and Christmas evening bring us to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and forgiven, for Jesus' sake. Amen Robert Louis Stevenson
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself. Robert Louis Stevenson
Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall. Robert Louis Stevenson
Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall. Robert Louis Stevenson
You can't begin and then stop. If you begin, you must keep on beginning: that's the truth. No rest for the wicked. Robert Louis Stevenson
The cruellest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson
Extreme busyness, whether at school or college, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. Robert Louis Stevenson
Teacher, tender, comrade, wife, / A fellow-farer true through life, / Heart-whole and soul-free / The august father / Gave to me. Robert Louis Stevenson
What hangs people ... is the unfortunate circumstance of guilt. Robert Louis Stevenson
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbours good. One person I have to make good: myself. Robert Louis Stevenson
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude and which rightly understood is solitude made perfect. Robert Louis Stevenson
Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stevenson
Every heart that has beat strong and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. Robert Louis Stevenson
The secret to happiness is a small ego. And a big wallet. Good wine helps, too. But that's not really a secret, is it? Robert Louis Stevenson