Frases de Robert Louis Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson , tendo nascido Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, foi um influente novelista, poeta e escritor de roteiros de viagem britânico, nascido na Escócia. Escreveu clássicos como A Ilha do Tesouro, O Médico e o Monstro e As Aventuras de David Balfour.

Considerado um dos mais importantes escritores britânicos do século XIX, está entre os autores mais traduzidos em todo o mundo. Foi, em vida, também um ativista político, crítico social e humanista. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Novembro 1850 – 3. Dezembro 1894   •   Outros nomes Robert L. Stevenson
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Robert Louis Stevenson Frases famosas

“Guarde seus medos para você mesmo, mas partilhe sua inspiração com todos.”

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courag e with others.
citado em "The Pennsylvania medical journal‎" - Vol. 10, Página 438, de Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania - 1907
Variante: Guarde seus medos para si mesmo; com os outros, compartilhe a coragem.

“Não há nada que desperte mais a nossa repugnância que o canibalismo […], no entanto causamos a mesma impressão nos budistas e nos vegetarianos, porque nos alimentamos de bebês, apesar de não serem os nossos.”

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, [...] And yet we ourselves make much the same appearance in the eyes of the Buddhist and the vegetarian. We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions, and organs with ourselves; we feed on babes, though not our own;
The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson : In the South Seas. A foot-note to history‎ - Página 96, de Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley - Publicado por Scribner's, 1896, CHAPTER XI LONG-PIG — A CANNIBAL HIGH PLACE

“O homem de sucesso é o que viveu bem, riu muitas vezes e amou bastante; que conquistou o respeito dos homens inteligentes e o amor das crianças; que galgou uma posição respeitada e cumpriu suas tarefas; que deixou este mundo melhor do que encontrou, ao contribuir com uma flor mais bonita, um poema perfeito ou uma alma resgatada; que jamais deixou de apreciar a beleza do mundo ou falhou em expressá-la; que buscou o melhor nos outros e deu o melhor de si.”

That a man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.
citado em "Bulletin‎" - Vol. 2, Página 12, de National Association of Corporation Schools - 1914

Citações de homens de Robert Louis Stevenson

Citações de vida de Robert Louis Stevenson

“A atividade intensa, tanto na escola quanto na faculdade, na igreja ou no mercado, é um sinal de escassa vitalidade.”

citado em "Citações da Cultura Universal" - Página 21, Alberto J. G. Villamarín, Editora AGE Ltda, 2002, ISBN 8574970891, 9788574970899

Robert Louis Stevenson frases e citações

“Casamento é uma longa conversa entremeada de disputa.”

Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes
Works: Volume 1 - página 209, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Sidney Colvin - Printed by T. and A. Constable for Longmans Green and Co., 1894

“Somos todos viajantes pelas agruras do mundo, e o melhor que podemos achar em nossas viagens é um amigo honesto.”

we are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world—all, too, travellers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson in: Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

“As mentiras mais cruéis são ditas em silêncio.”

Variante: As mentiras mais cruéis são frequentemente ditas em silêncio.

“A política talvez seja a única profissão para a qual não se julga necessária uma preparação.”

politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
"The works of Robert Louis Stevenson" - Vol. 2, Página 166, de Robert Louis Stevenson - printed by T. and A. Constable for Longmans Green and Co., 1895

“A marca de uma boa acção é que, retrospectivamente, parece inevitável.”

Variante: A marca de uma boa ação é que, retrospectivamente, parece inevitável.

Robert Louis Stevenson: Frases em inglês

“I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.”

Robert Louis Stevenson livro Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XI, Romance, st. 1.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“In the highlands, in the country places,
Where the old plain men have rosy faces,
And the young fair maidens
Quiet eyes.”

Robert Louis Stevenson livro Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.”

Robert Louis Stevenson livro Across the Plains

Fonte: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.

“By all means begin your folio; even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.”

316.
Aes Triplex (1878)
Variante: Even if the doctor does not give a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

“Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”

'La Fère of Cursed Memory', 15th vignette of An Inland Voyage (1878), in Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/8026833953, Stevenson, e-artnow (2015)

“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.”

Robert Louis Stevenson livro Virginibus Puerisque

Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 1. http://books.google.com/books?id=Alw-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22You+could+read+Kant+by+yourself+if+you+wanted+but+you+must+share+a+joke+with+some+one%22+else&pg=PA17#v=onepage
Cornhill Magazine, (August 1876) http://books.google.com/books?id=VoNHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22You+could+read+Kant+by+yourself+if+you+wanted+but+you+must+share+a+joke+with+some+one+else%22&pg=PA174#v=onepage
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

Familiar Studies of Men and Books http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/fsomb10.txt (1882).

“God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff.”

Robert Louis Stevenson livro Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XXV, If This Were Faith.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.”

Robert Louis Stevenson livro Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. II, Youth and Love - I, st. 3.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“Bright is the ring of words
When the right man rings them.”

Robert Louis Stevenson livro Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XIV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me;
All I ask, the heaven above
And the road below me.”

Robert Louis Stevenson livro Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. I, The Vagabond, st. 4.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“Ice and iron cannot be welded.”

Weir of Hermiston http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/weirh10.txt (1896).

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

An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“There's just ae thing I cannae bear,
An' that's my conscience.”

Robert Louis Stevenson livro Underwoods

Bk. II, In Scots, My Conscience.
Underwoods (1887)

“The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”

Robert Louis Stevenson livro A Child's Garden of Verses

Happy Thought.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

“The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple-tart.”

Robert Louis Stevenson livro A Child's Garden of Verses

The Cow, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”

Robert Louis Stevenson livro An Inland Voyage

An Inland Voyage (1878).