Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

“Them that die'll be the lucky ones.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:death

“I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes—what to the doctor know of lands like that?”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:knowledgeexperience

“Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable—not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:friendshipspirit

“The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:wordsspeech

“You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to myself. I think, if I had been able, that I would have killed him through the barrel.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:words

“all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

topic:goodevil

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

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

topic:evilsoul

“They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; and so when each had said his say, my mother made them a speech.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

topic:couragespeechcowardice

“you must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship, if my door is often shut even to you. You must suffer me to go my own dark way.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

topic:darkness

“There is a romance about all who are abroad in the black hours, and with something of a thrill we try to guess their business.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

topic:darknessromance