Famous Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

  • Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. – Robert Louis Stevenson

    Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense.– Robert Louis Stevenson

  • The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean. – Robert Louis Stevenson

    The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.– Robert Louis Stevenson

  • They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; – Robert Louis Stevenson

    They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;– Robert Louis Stevenson

  • There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours. – Robert Louis Stevenson

    There is a romance about all those who are abroad in the black hours.– Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. – Robert Louis Stevenson

    Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.– Robert Louis Stevenson

  • You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us. – Robert Louis Stevenson

    You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.– Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest – Robert Louis Stevenson

    Suicide carried off many. Drink and the devil took care of the rest– Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was. – Robert Louis Stevenson

    Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.– Robert Louis Stevenson

  • Don’t you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril? – Robert Louis Stevenson

    Don’t you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?– Robert Louis Stevenson

  • …with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion. – Robert Louis Stevenson

    …with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.– Robert Louis Stevenson