Robert A. Heinlein citations célèbres
Robert A. Heinlein: Citations en anglais
Robert A. Heinlein livre I Will Fear No Evil
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 2, p. 35
In a live interview with Walter Cronkite of CBS News, on the day of the first moonwalk (20 July 1969)
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century, Volume I (1907–1949): Learning Curve (2010)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Space Cadet
Source: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 15 “Pie With a Fork”, p. 180
“Gravity’s books have got to balance.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Farmer in the Sky
Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 17, “Disaster” (p. 177)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Space Cadet
Source: Space Cadet (1948), Chapter 16 “P.R.S. Astarte”, p. 195
“Don’t pay any attention to what she says. Half of it’s always wrong and she doesn’t mean the rest.”
The Menace from Earth (p. 351)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Beyond This Horizon
Source: Beyond This Horizon (1948; originally serialized in 1942), Chapter 7, “Burn him down at once—”, p. 75
“Son, suppose you tend to your knitting and I tend to mine.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Double Star
Double Star (1956)
“Nobody ever wins a lawsuit but the lawyers.”
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 2
“I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre I Will Fear No Evil
Source: I Will Fear No Evil (1970), Chapter 27, p. 473
“My old man claimed that the more complicated the law the more opportunity for scoundrels.”
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 5
Robert A. Heinlein livre The Number of the Beast
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter V : “—a wedding ring is not a ring in my nose—”, p. 41
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Source: Time Enough for Love: the lives of Lazarus Long; a novel , (1973), p. 366
Source: The Door Into Summer (1957), Chapter 8
“He considered horoscopes as silly as spectacles on a cow.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Between Planets
Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 4, “The Glory Road” (p. 43)
Robert A. Heinlein livre The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985), p. 564
“Never listen to newscasts. Saves wear and tear on the nervous system.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Red Planet
Source: Red Planet (1949), Chapter 2, “South Colony, Mars”, p. 17
“Everybody has a skeleton in the closet; the thing is to keep ’em there and not at the feast.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Starman Jones
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 10, “Garson’s Planet” (p. 109)
“Like searching at midnight in a dark cellar for a black cat that isn’t there.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Starman Jones
Source: Starman Jones (1953), Chapter 11, “Through the Cargo Hatch” (p. 115)
Robert A. Heinlein livre Between Planets
Source: Between Planets (1951), Chapter 6, “The Sign in the Sky” (p. 74) - Speech given before the destruction of the nuclear-armed satellite Circum-Terra.
“Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre Double Star
Double Star (1956)
Robert A. Heinlein livre The Number of the Beast
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter IX : Most males have an unhealthy tendency to obey laws., p. 82
“One can’t expect logic from males; they think with their testicles and act from their emotions.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre The Number of the Beast
Source: The Number of the Beast (1980), Chapter XXXIX : Random Numbers, p. 385
Robert A. Heinlein livre The Long Watch
The Long Watch (p. 214)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
“In the army it takes an eight-man working party to help a brass hat blow his nose.”
Robert A. Heinlein livre The Puppet Masters
Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 30 (p. 153)
Robert A. Heinlein livre "—All You Zombies—"
"—All You Zombies—" (1958)
Robert A. Heinlein livre The Puppet Masters
Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 24 (p. 127)
