The Body Snatcher Quotes

“You can't begin and then stop. If you begin, you must keep on beginning: that's the truth. No rest for the wicked.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher

“Every night in the year, four of us sat in the small parlour of the George at Debenham - the undertaker, and the landlord, and Fettes, and myself.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher

“John Varey Nicholson was stupid; yet, stupider men than he are now sprawling in Parliament, and lauding themselves as the authors of their own distinction.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher

“The more things are wrong the more we must act as if all were right.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher

“He would have given the world to have been a little braver at the time, but it did not occur to him that he might still be brave.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher

“De esta manera, bajo los árboles goteantes y rodeados de grandes sombras que se movían continuamente, llegaron al escenario de sus impíos trabajos”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Body Snatcher