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.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Art Quotes, Literature Quotes

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...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes...

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

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

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

I find it useful to remember, everyone lives by selling something.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Every one lives by selling something.

Every one lives by selling something.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By...

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and...

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and...

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells...

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells...

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good....

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good....

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.

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in...

The world has no room for cowards.

The world has no room for cowards.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind...

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on...

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.