Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

My wife would say I'm more Hyde than Jekyll!

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

I'm a Gemini. Know what that means? There are two very different sides to me.

Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.

Obviously I have more in common with Jekyll, but there's something about Hyde.

I'm a child of extremes.

Question: If there were two of you which one would win?

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.

Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast

Father and son are natural enemies and each is happier and more secure in keeping it that way.

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.

As a human race, we have good people and bad people, and everyone has agendas.