Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Consequences
Down
Late
Related Quotes:
" The obscurest epoch is today. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Epoch
Today
" Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
His
Ancestors
Each
" Wine is bottled poetry. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Bottled
Food
Wine
" Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Long
Conversation
Disputes
" Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Preparation
Thought
Only
" We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Know
Parliament
Ashamed
" We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Friend
World
Travel
" Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Enough
Poor
Own
" The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Body
Windows
Sit
" Everyone lives by selling something. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Lives
Something
Selling
" It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Better
Health
Like
" It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Another
One Thing
Curiosity
" For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Go
Affair
Move
" 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
Man
Friend
Long
" To forget oneself is to be happy. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Forget
Be Happy
Happy
" The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Style
Web
Literature
" You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Love
Give
Giving
" Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Battle
Like
Marriage
" The world is full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Number
Happy
World
" The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pay
Money
Liberty
" The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Being
Habit
Being Happy
" Every man has a sane spot somewhere. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Every Man
Funny
Spot
" Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Down
Later
Consequences
" Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Well
Though
He
" You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Some
Share
Must
" It's a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Pleasant
Thing
Toes
" Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life
Succeed
Our
" If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Success
Fame
Trade
" We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Challenge
Quality
Grow
" In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. "
Robert Louis Stevenson
Man
Being
Marriage