The cruellest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson Virginibus Puerisque Read Virginibus Puerisque at Project Gutenberg Instagram sharing coming soon. Quote text and source copied to clipboard. Link to this quote copied to clipboard. More information about this quote Topic Lies Author Robert Louis Stevenson Source Virginibus Puerisque Medium Essay Language English Time 1881 1880s 19th century Occupation Novelist Writer From United Kingdom Europe Authentication Score 3 More information on Authentication Score coming soon. Original Citation Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Truth of Intercourse." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881, pt. 1, ch. 4. Original citation text copied to clipboard.
Another quote by Robert Louis Stevenson We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson Show More Info Instagram sharing coming soon. Quote text and source copied to clipboard. Link to this quote copied to clipboard. More information about this quote Topic Friends Existential solitude Travel Author Robert Louis Stevenson Source Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes Genre Autobiography and memoir Travel writing Language English Time 1879 1870s 19th century Authentication Score 3 More information on Authentication Score coming soon. Original Citation Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879. Original citation text copied to clipboard. Current Citation Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Dover Publications, 2019. Current citation text copied to clipboard. Show Less Info
Another quote from the 1880s We are the tools are vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. John Swinton There are no other quotes by this person in the Bon Mots database. Quoted in Chicago Labor Enquirer Show More Info Instagram sharing coming soon. Quote text and source copied to clipboard. Link to this quote copied to clipboard. More information about this quote Topic Journalism Speaker John Swinton Source Chicago Labor Enquirer Language English Time 1888 1880s 19th century Authentication Score 1 More information on Authentication Score coming soon. Citation Swinton, John. Quoted in Chicago Labor Enquirer. 12 May 1888. Citation text copied to clipboard. Show Less Info