We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Topics: Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

The world has no room for cowards.

The world has no room for cowards.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

The price we have to pay for money is sometimes liberty.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a...

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best that we...

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.

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

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

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...

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about...

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about...

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the...

I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the...

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there...

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there...

Youth is wholly experimental

Youth is wholly experimental

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it...

Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it...

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a...

The existence of a man is so small a thing to take, so mighty a...

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a...

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a...