Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson Quotes


104 quotes:

"Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other… to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Youth Quotes
"For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!"
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Youth Quotes
"Youth is wholly experimental"
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Youth Quotes
"The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfo"
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Travel Quotes
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Travel And Tourism Quotes
"He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Travel And Tourism Quotes
"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Travel And Tourism Quotes
"It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Travel Quotes Travel And Tourism Quotes
"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Travel Quotes Travel And Tourism Quotes
"To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes Taboos Quotes
"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Speech Quotes
"The saints are the sinners who keep on trying."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Sin Quotes
"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Scottish Writer Quotes
"To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Scottish Writer Quotes
"Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Scottish Writer Quotes
"He who sows hurry reaps indigestion."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Scottish Writer Quotes
"Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Scottish Writer Quotes
"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Scottish Writer Quotes
"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own."
Author: Stevenson Quotes Category: Scottish Writer Quotes

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