The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for the novels Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), and Kidnapped (1886) and for the poetry...

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I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no duty we so much underrate as the as the duty of being happy.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

More quotations tagged with “silence”

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

—Publilius Syrus

Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.

—Peter Minard

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

—Muhammad Ali

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

—Martin Luther King Jr.