Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

• A friend is a gift you give yourself.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Friendship, Motivational

  Tags in Give

• Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Inspirational, Motivational

  Tags in Judge

• You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Pet And Animal, Dog

• You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reading, Company

• You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Weakness

• You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Else, Share, Joke

• You can kill the body but not the spirit.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spirit

• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Giving

• You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dissolution, Compatibility, Laughing

• Wine is bottled poetry.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wine, Poetry

• When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fatigue, Weapon

• When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Meddling, Estate, Girls, Proud

• When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scream, Theory, Sweeps, Expect

• Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Tags in Glaring, Glaringly, Nineteenth, Souvenir

• We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Challenge, Life

  Tags in Quality, Acceptance

• We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Life

• We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Parliament

• Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Tags in Vanity, Obstinate

• To forget oneself is to be happy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Forget

• To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Identity, Idle

Robert Louis Stevenson (164)

Birth:	13th November, 1850
Death:	3rd December, 1894
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Essayist, Novelist, Poet

About

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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