A Lodging for the Night Quotes

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, A Lodging for the Night

“I believe you to be strictly honorable.'He thoughtfully emptied his cup. 'I wish I could add you were intelligent,' he went on, knocking on his head with his knuckles.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, A Lodging for the Night

“High up overhead the snow settled among the tracery
of the cathedral towers. Many a niche was drifted full; many a statue
wore a long white bonnet on its grotesque or sainted head. The gargoyles
had been transformed into great false noses, drooping toward the point.
The crockets were like upright pillows swollen on one side. In the
intervals of the wind there was a dull sound dripping about the
precincts of the church.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, A Lodging for the Night