Robert A. Heinlein citations célèbres
Robert A. Heinlein: Citations en anglais
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXIX : “—we place no faith in princes.”, p. 290
Life-Line (p. 25)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 10
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 9, “When we die, do we die all over?”, p. 97
“Bill, why is it that some apparently-grown men never learn to do simple arithmetic?”
Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 14, “Land of My Own” (p. 142)
Source: The Rolling Stones (1952), Chapter 14, “Flat Cats Factorial” (p. 187)
Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 10 (p. 127)
“Methuselah’s Children” Part 1, Chapter 1, p. 539
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
“Beat the plowshares back into swords; the other was a maiden aunt’s fancy.”
Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 35 (p. 174)
“Premenstrual Syndrome: Just before their periods women behave the way men do all the time.”
credited to Lowell Stone, M.D., born 2144; chapter 15, p. 185
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
“Coventry”, pp. 500-501; originally published in Astounding Science Fiction (July 1940)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
The Long Watch (p. 255)
The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
“From my point of view, a great deal of openly expressed piety is insufferable conceit.”
If This Goes On— (p. 431)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
““You have us going faster than light.”
“I thought the figures were a bit large.””
Source: The Rolling Stones (1952), Chapter 8, “The Mighty Room” (p. 100)
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 14, “—and beat him when he sneezes”, p. 134
“We may eliminate death someday but I doubt if we’ll ever eliminate taxes.”
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 24, p. 406
““Going to dance at my wake?”
“I don’t dance,” the lawyer answered, “but you tempt me to learn.””
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 1, p. 13
The Pragmatics of Patriotism (1973)
“Don, have you been dealing with a booklegger?”
Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 1, “New Mexico” (p. 10) - Mr. Reeves, asking the main character why he was in possession of a forbidden book discussing interplanetary politics.
Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 6, “The Sign in the Sky” (p. 75)
“It was so darn quiet you could hear your hair grow.”
Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 13, “Johnny Appleseed” (p. 131)
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 7
“This Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built on government contract.”
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter II : “This Universe never did make sense—”, p. 16
“Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.”
Source: Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Chapter 2, “The Fifth Way” (p. 42)
“I am forced to conclude that being right has little to do with holding a woman’s affections.”
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXVI : The Keys to the City, p. 243
“History is never surprising—after it happens.”
Logic of Empire (p. 333)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 10, “—the only game in town”, pp. 108-109
“There was nothing under her clothes but girl and assorted items of lethal hardware.”
Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 4 (p. 28)
