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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
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About Robert Louis Stevenson
 Life: 1850 - 1894 Country:  Scotland Profession: Writer; Poet; Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 - December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.
more... QuotationsMost of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
It's a long time between drinks. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson - The Wrong Box, 1889
It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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