Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

“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

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“Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to save our lives.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“It's a pleasant thing to be young and have ten toes, and you may lay to that.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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

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

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“Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly—and woke up again, and here I were.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“This grove that was now so peaceful must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“I'll be as silent as the grave.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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“There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terwards, Tom Morgan, you may lay to that.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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