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
Robert Louis Stevenson livro Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
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
Robert Louis Stevenson livro Underwoods
Pt. I, My Body Which My Dungeon Is.
Underwoods (1887)
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“Youth now flees on feathered foot.”
To Will H. Low, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Prayer, inscribed on the bronze memorial to Stevenson in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland
Robert Louis Stevenson livro The Silverado Squatters
The Silverado Squatters.
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“The pleasant Land of Counterpane.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livro The Land of Counterpane
The Land of Counterpane, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Robert Louis Stevenson livro Treasure Island
and I lived on rum, I tell you.
Fonte: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 3, The Black Spot.
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Robert Louis Stevenson livro Across the Plains
Fonte: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
“Children, you are very little,
And your bones are very brittle.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livro A Child's Garden of Verses
Good and Bad Children, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
“Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!”
Robert Louis Stevenson livro Songs of Travel and Other Verses
No. XLV, S.R. Crockett.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
“There is but one art, to omit.”
As cited in The Harper Book of Quotations, Revised Edition (1993), Ed. R. Fitzhenry, HarperCollins, p. 498 : ISBN 0062732137, 9780062732132
“Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!”
Robert Louis Stevenson livro Treasure Island
Fonte: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 10, The Voyage.
Robert Louis Stevenson livro Kidnapped
Kidnapped, ch. 10 (1886).
“A good conscience is eight parts of courage.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livro Catriona
Catriona, ch. XI (1893).
“Time passes quickly with lovers.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livro The Pavilion on the Links
The Pavilion on the Links, ch. V.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
“A woman can earn her pardon for a good year of disobedience by a single adroit submission.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livro The Rajah's Diamond
The Rajah's Diamond, Story of the Bandbox.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for practical existence.”
A Lodging for the Night.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livro Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
“A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livro The Suicide Club
The Suicide Club, Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
Robert Louis Stevenson livro The Silverado Squatters
Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
“The imagination loves to trifle with what is not.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livro The Silverado Squatters
The Sea Fogs
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
“Sanity itself is a kind of convention.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livro The Silverado Squatters
The Hunter’s Family
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
Robert Louis Stevenson livro The Silverado Squatters
Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)