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.
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
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
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
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
“Them that die will be the lucky ones!”
Fonte: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 20, Silver's Embassy.
“A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.”
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
No. XXVI, My Wife.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
Whole Duty of Children.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
“What is the Black Spot, Captain?" "That's a summons, mate.”
Fonte: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 3.
“Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is — nor yet so good a Christian.”
The Master of Ballantrae. Mr. Mackellar's Journey (1889).
“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
El Dorado.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.”
Prince Otto, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Bed in Summer, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 2.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“Nothing like a little judicious levity.”
The Wrong Box, ch. 7 (1889).
Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 1.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.”
The Master of Ballantrae, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Many's a long night I've dreamed of cheese — toasted mostly.”
Fonte: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 15, The Man of the Island.
“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
My Shadow, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
An Inland Voyage (1878), Ch. III, "The Royal Sport Nautique".
Memories and Portraits, ch. IV. A College Magazine (1887).