Robert Louis Stevenson Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wine is bottled poetry.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Everyone lives by selling something.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

Robert Louis Stevenson

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson