“Children, you are very little,
And your bones are very brittle.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book A Child's Garden of Verses
Good and Bad Children, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
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“Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!”
Robert Louis Stevenson book Songs of Travel and Other Verses
No. XLV, S.R. Crockett.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
“There is but one art, to omit.”
As cited in The Harper Book of Quotations, Revised Edition (1993), Ed. R. Fitzhenry, HarperCollins, p. 498 : ISBN 0062732137, 9780062732132
“Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!”
Robert Louis Stevenson book Treasure Island
Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 10, The Voyage.
“A good conscience is eight parts of courage.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book Catriona
Catriona, ch. XI (1893).
“Time passes quickly with lovers.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book The Pavilion on the Links
The Pavilion on the Links, ch. V.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
“A woman can earn her pardon for a good year of disobedience by a single adroit submission.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book The Rajah's Diamond
The Rajah's Diamond, Story of the Bandbox.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for practical existence.”
A Lodging for the Night.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
“A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book The Suicide Club
The Suicide Club, Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters
Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
“The imagination loves to trifle with what is not.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters
The Sea Fogs
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
“Sanity itself is a kind of convention.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters
The Hunter’s Family
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
Robert Louis Stevenson book The Silverado Squatters
Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)