Arthur Ransome citations

Arthur Michell Ransome, né le 18 janvier 1884 à Leeds et mort le 3 juin 1967, est un écrivain et journaliste anglais, surtout connu pour sa collection de livres pour enfants Hirondelles et Amazones . Ces livres content les aventures d'enfants qui passent leurs vacances scolaires au Lake District et The Broads, pour y naviguer, camper et pêcher. Les livres furent si populaires qu'ils furent à la base d'une industrie touristique autour de Windermere et Coniston Water, les deux lacs que Ransome a utilisés comme base pour son lac fictif du Nord de l'Angleterre.

Il a également écrit sur la vie littéraire de Londres, et sur la Russie avant, pendant, et après la révolution de 1917.

En 1936, Ransome a gagné la première médaille Carnegie et en 1953 il a reçu l'ordre de l'Empire britannique. Wikipedia

✵ 18. janvier 1884 – 3. juin 1967

Arthur Ransome: 11 citations0 J'aime

Arthur Ransome: Citations en anglais

“What's hit's history: what's missed's mystery.”

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Arthur Ransome livre Great Northern?

Great Northern? (Chapter 9), 1947

“Only, the beastly Arctic won't freeze”

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Arthur Ransome livre Winter Holiday

Winter Holiday (Chapter 3), 1933

“Softly, at first, as if it hardly meant it, the snow began to fall.”

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Arthur Ransome livre Winter Holiday

Winter Holiday (Chapter 5), 1933

“Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.”

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Arthur Ransome livre We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea

We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (Title page and Chapter 2), 1937

“They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.”

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Arthur Ransome livre Swallowdale

Swallowdale (Chapter 4), 1931

“When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.”

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Arthur Ransome livre Swallowdale

Swallowdale (Chapter 8), 1931

“A pigeon a day keeps the natives away”

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Pigeon Post Title page and Chapter 4), 1936

“Houses, are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to the vegetable not the animal world, rooted and stationary, incapable of gay transition. I admit, doubtfully, as exceptions, snail-shells and caravans. The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting-place.”

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Racundra's First Cruise (Chapter 1), 1923

“A lot of things were lucky," said Daddy, and suddenly, while they were walking along, brought his hand down on John's shoulder and gave it a bit of a squeeze. "You'll be a seaman yet, my son." And John, for one dreadful moment, felt that something was going wrong with his eyes. A sort of wetness, and hotness… Partly salt… Pleased though he was, he found himself biting his lower lip pretty hard, and looking the other way.”

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“She's got a rum job, but she knows how to do it, and to have a job and know how to do it is one of the best things in this life. And if only she stops hankering after Cambridge…”

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Arthur Ransome livre Missee Lee

Missee Lee (Chapter 26), 1941

“BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.”

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Arthur Ransome livre Swallows and Amazons

Swallows and Amazons (Chapter 1), 1930

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