Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Love Quotes

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

A friend is a present you give to yourself.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute...

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean

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

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

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish;...

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant...

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke...

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke...

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And...

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And...

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if...

I think history is inextricably linked to identity. If you don't know your history, if...