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Robert Louis Stevenson quotes

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“Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“You can kill the body, Mr. Hands, but not the spirit;” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“I'll be as silent as the grave.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“Sir . . . with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“Them that die'll be the lucky ones.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener; and so when each had said his say, my mother made them a speech.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terwards, Tom Morgan, you may lay to that.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly—and woke up again, and here I were.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
“Then it was that there came into my head the first of the mad notions that contributed so much to save our lives.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to my evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
“all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
“Fifteen men on the dead man's chest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest— Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“you must not be surprised, nor must you doubt my friendship, if my door is often shut even to you. You must suffer me to go my own dark way.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
“You're a lad, you are, but you're as smart as paint.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“It's a pleasant thing to be young and have ten toes, and you may lay to that.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes—what to the doctor know of lands like that?” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“The Hispaniola still lay where she had anchored; but, sure enough, there was the Jolly Roger—the black flag of piracy—flying from her peak.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“And altogether I paid pretty dear for my monthly fourpenny piece, in the shape of these abominable fancies.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“Between Silver and myself we got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable—not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
“You may imagine how I felt when I heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery as he had used to myself. I think, if I had been able, that I would have killed him through the barrel.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange and tragic as our actual adventures.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“This grove that was now so peaceful must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“There is a romance about all who are abroad in the black hours, and with something of a thrill we try to guess their business.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
“But you're able to hear, I reckon; leastways, your ears is big enough.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
“where a faith has been trodden out, we may look for a mean and narrow population.” Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
“Well, now I tell you, I never seen good come o' goodness yet. Him as strikes first is my fancy; dead men don't bite; them's my views” Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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