Robert A. Heinlein citations célèbres
Robert A. Heinlein: Citations en anglais
Robert A. Heinlein livre If This Goes On
If This Goes On— (p. 432)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
“You can only grieve so much; after that it’s self pity.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Farmer in the Sky
Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 18, “Pioneer Party” (p. 188)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Beyond This Horizon
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 15, “Probably a blind alley—”, p. 146
Robert A. Heinlein livre Rocket Ship Galileo
Source: Rocket Ship Galileo (1947), Chapter 4, “The Blood of Pioneers”, p. 34
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Time Enough for Love (1973)
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 12
Robert A. Heinlein livre Beyond This Horizon
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 14, “—and beat him when he sneezes”, p. 132
“A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Methuselah's Children
Methuselah's Children (1958)
“She sounds like a sensible person.”
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 11
Robert A. Heinlein livre The Puppet Masters
Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 10 (p. 61)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Beyond This Horizon
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 14, “—and beat him when he sneezes”, p. 130
Robert A. Heinlein livre Between Planets
Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 8, “Foxes Have Holes, and Birds of the Air Have Nests—” (p. 91)
“So-called instincts are instructive, Felix. They point to survival values.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Beyond This Horizon
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 7, “Burn him down at once—”, p. 76
Robert A. Heinlein livre The Number of the Beast
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXXI : “—the first ghosts ever to search for an obstetrician.”, p. 321
The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)
Contexte: Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.
Robert A. Heinlein livre Farmer in the Sky
Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 18, “Pioneer Party” (p. 196)
Robert A. Heinlein livre The Number of the Beast
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXVI : The Keys to the City, p. 249
Robert A. Heinlein livre I Will Fear No Evil
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 1, p. 24
“An invention is something that was “impossible” up to then—that’s why governments grant patents.”
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 6
“I am learning that we still have things to learn.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre The Number of the Beast
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XIV : “Quit worrying and enjoy the ride.”, p. 128
“I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation.”
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 8
“Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Red Planet
Source: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 4, “Lowell Academy”, p. 49
“If at Last You Do Succeed, Never Try Again.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre "—All You Zombies—"
"—All You Zombies—" (1958)
“A man has to grow up in a language to be able to understand it scrambled.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Sixth Column
Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 9 (p. 108)
“How long has this racket been going on?”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Grumbles from the Grave
Remark after receiving a $70 US check for his first published story.
Grumbles from the Grave (1989)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961; 1991)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Between Planets
Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 1, “New Mexico” (p. 9)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Assignment in Eternity
Assignment in Eternity (1953)
