Robert Louis Stevenson on Family
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson, catalogued under family, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson, entry #102602: "'I incline to Cain's heresy,' he used to say quaintly: 'I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.'"
Attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson, entry #207847: "A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity."
6 Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson on Family
"'I incline to Cain's heresy,' he used to say quaintly: 'I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.'"
"A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity."
"I have observed there are no persons so far away as those who are both married and estranged, so that they seem out of ear-shot or to have no common tongue."
"151 poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, at Poetry Archive"
"The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances. To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honourable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and smiling age, is to be a good artist in life and deserve well of yourself and your neighbour."
"And no doubt it is easy thus to circumvent a child with catchwords, but it may be questioned how far it is effectual. An instinct in his breast detects the quibble, and a voice condemns it. He will instantly submit, privately hold the same opinion. For even in this simple and antique relation of the mother and the child, hypocrisies are multiplied."