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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish Writer, Essayist, Poet, Novelist

These Robert Louis Stevenson quotes and sayings from our famous words of wisdom collection.

 

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. - Robert Louis Stevenson


We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. - Robert Louis Stevenson


So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson


There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign. - Robert Louis Stevenson


Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. - Robert Louis Stevenson


Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese, toasted, mostly. - Robert Louis Stevenson


All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. - Robert Louis Stevenson


The cruelest lies are often told in silence. [Virginibus Puerisque, 1881] - Robert Louis Stevenson


Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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