Top 500 Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Wine is bottled poetry.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

52. “I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

53. “Sightseeing is the art of disappointment.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

54. “To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

55. “To miss the joy is to miss everything.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

56. “There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

57. “If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

58. “I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

59. “My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

60. “Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

61. “There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

62. “Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

63. “Many’s the long night I’ve dreamed of cheese – toasted mostly.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

64. “There is but one art, to omit.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

65. “I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

66. “You must suffer me to go my own dark way.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

67. “No man is useless while he has a friend.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

68. “The true success is to labour.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

69. “The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

70. “Jekyll had more than a father’s interest; Hyde had more than a son’s indifference.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

71. “Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It’s the glory of the sea that has turned my head.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

72. “I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

73. “We must go on, because we can’t turn back.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

74. “And the true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

75. “Sooner or later we all sit down to a banquet of consequences.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

76. “The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. – Rain.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

77. “Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

78. “To forget oneself is to be happy.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

79. “We fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of fear and pain.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

80. “All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

81. “It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

82. “Man is not truly one, but truly two.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

83. “Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

84. “There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

85. “Sit loosely in the saddle.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

86. “To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

87. “Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

88. “If it comes to a swinging, swing all, say I.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

89. “O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan’s signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

90. “Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

91. “And yet even while I was exulting in my solitude I became aware of a strange lack. I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

92. “The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

93. “Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above And the byway nigh me. Bed in the bush with the 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

94. “The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

95. “To love is the great amulet that makes this world a garden.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

96. “For God’s sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

97. “O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind, that sings so loud a song!”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

98. “Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

99. “All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

100. “My idea of man’s chief end was to enrich the world with things of beauty, and have a fairly good time myself while doing so.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson