Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

1850–1894, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist
quotes
64
topics
12
Origin
What do these mean?
Topic
“The obscurest epoch is to-day.”
Present
“Every man has a sane spot somewhere.”
Humankind
“Everyone lives by selling something.”
Sales
“The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.”
Sin
“It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.”
Travel and Tourism
“An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.”
Goals
“The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.”
Money
“Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.”
Marriage
“Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
Consequences
“Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.”
Consequences
“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
Fear
“There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.”
VerifiedVirginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881) · evidenceDuty
“Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”
Action
“The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
Action
“It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.”
Action
“The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.”
Truth
“Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.”
Ancestry
“Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.”
Marriage
“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catch words.”
Vocabulary
“For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!”
VerifiedVirginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881) · evidenceYouth
“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
Politicians and Politics
“Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.”
VerifiedComplete Works, vol. 26, Reflections and Remarks on Human Life, section 4. · evidenceFailure
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.”
Travel and Tourism
“The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
VerifiedA Child's Garden of Verses (1885) · evidenceWorld
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
VerifiedFamiliar Studies of Men and Books (1882). · evidenceSuccess