Top 102 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.