Quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson
Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all travellers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend
- Robert Louis Stevenson
And every day when I've been good, I get an orange after food.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant!
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
- Robert Louis Stevenson