Robert Louis Stevenson: Citations en anglais
“Them that die will be the lucky ones!”
Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 20, Silver's Embassy.
“A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.”
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
No. XXVI, My Wife.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
Whole Duty of Children.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
“What is the Black Spot, Captain?" "That's a summons, mate.”
Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 3.
“Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is — nor yet so good a Christian.”
The Master of Ballantrae. Mr. Mackellar's Journey (1889).
“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”
El Dorado.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.”
Prince Otto, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Bed in Summer, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 2.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“Nothing like a little judicious levity.”
The Wrong Box, ch. 7 (1889).
Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 1.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.”
The Master of Ballantrae, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Many's a long night I've dreamed of cheese — toasted mostly.”
Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 15, The Man of the Island.
“Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.”
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
My Shadow, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
An Inland Voyage (1878), Ch. III, "The Royal Sport Nautique".
Memories and Portraits, ch. IV. A College Magazine (1887).
