Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

Doctors is all swabs. ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson It was one January morning, very early—a pinching, frosty morning—the cove all grey with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward. ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson "With no intention to take offence, I deny your right to put words into my mouth." ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson "Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly." ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson "I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me." ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest -- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent. ~ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson "I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgment." ~ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object. ~ The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson