Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes (177 Quotes)
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- I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
- It was high time, for I now began to be tortured with thirst. The glow of the sun from above, its thousandfold reflection from the waves, the sea-water that fell and dried upon me, caking my very lips with salt, combined to make my throat burn and my brain ache.
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island")
- I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end. And indeed he does not want my help; you do not know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of. ~Jekyll
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
- It was Silver's voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world. I lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiostiy, for, in those dozen words, I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended on me alone.
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island")
- If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
- Seaward ho! Hang the treasure! It's the glory of the sea that has turned my head.
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island")
- It was for one minute that I saw him, but the hair stood upon my head like quills. Sir, if that was my master, why had he a mask upon his face?
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
- Sir, with no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth.
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island")
- O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
- Sometimes the isle was thick with savages, with whom we fought, sometimes full of dangerous animals that hunted us, but in all my fancies nothing occurred to me so strange as our actual adventures.
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island")
- Some day, Utterson, after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you. ~Landon
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
- The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island")
- The less I understood of this farrago, the less I was in a position to judge of its importance.
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
- The workpeople, to be sure, were most annoyingly slow, but time cured that.
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Treasure Island")
- There comes an end to all things; the most capacious measure is filled at last; and this brief condescension to evil finally destroyed the balance of my soul.
(Robert Louis Stevenson, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde")
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