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.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Body Quotes

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.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

You can kill the body but not the spirit.

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.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success...

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success...

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to...

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to...

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Every one lives by selling something.

Every one lives by selling something.

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good...

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

If we take matrimony at it's lowest, we regard it as a sort of friendship...

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others,...

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

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

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

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for...

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for...

Beware the man of one book.

Beware the man of one book.

I used to think a good book was the best company, but now Ive thought...

I used to think a good book was the best company, but now Ive thought...