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Robert Louis Stevenson‎‎: Citations en anglais

“Do you know what the Governor of South Carolina said to the Governor of North Carolina? It's a long time between drinks, observed that powerful thinker.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box, ch. 8.

“Them that die will be the lucky ones!”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Treasure Island

Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 20, Silver's Embassy.

“A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.”

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An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“I suppose it is written that any one who sets up for a bit of a philosopher, must contradict himself to his very face. For here have I fairly talked myself into thinking that we have the whole thing before us at last; that there is no answer to the mystery, except that there are as many as you please; that there is no centre to the maze because, like the famous sphere, its centre is everywhere; and that agreeing to differ with every ceremony of politeness, is the only “one undisturbed song of pure concent” to which we are ever likely to lend our musical voices.”

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Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“Already an old man, he [Samuel Johnson] ventured on his Highland tour; and his heart, bound with triple brass, did not recoil before twenty-seven individual cups of tea.”

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314.
Aes Triplex (1878)

“Trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer
Made my mate.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Songs of Travel and Other Verses

No. XXVI, My Wife.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)

“A child should always say what's true
And speak when he is spoken to,
And behave mannerly at table;
At least as far as he is able.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre A Child's Garden of Verses

Whole Duty of Children.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre The Suicide Club

The New Arabian Nights. The Suicide Club (1882)

“I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Kidnapped

Kidnapped, ch. 14 (1886).

“What is the Black Spot, Captain?" "That's a summons, mate.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Treasure Island

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.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre The Master of Ballantrae

The Master of Ballantrae. Mr. Mackellar's Journey (1889).

“Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.”

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Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“Dear Andrew, with the brindled hair
Who glory to have thrown in air,
High over arm, the trembling reed,
By Ale and Kail, by Till and Tweed.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Underwoods

Bk. I, To Andrew Lang.
Underwoods (1887)

“Just now, when every one is bound, under pain of a decree in absence convicting them of lèse-respectability, to enter on some lucrative profession, and labour therein with something not far short of enthusiasm, a cry from the opposite party, who are content when they have enough.”

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An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“Of all my verse, like not a single line;
But like my title, for it is not mine.
That title from a better man I stole:
Ah, how much better, had I stol'n the whole!”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Underwoods

Title page poem
Underwoods (1887)

“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.”

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El Dorado.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Prince Otto

Prince Otto, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre A Child's Garden of Verses

Bed in Summer, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

“It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room.”

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315.
Aes Triplex (1878)

“We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.”

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314.
Aes Triplex (1878)

“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but principally by catchwords; and the little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Virginibus Puerisque

Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 2.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser. It is as if a ship captain should sail to India from the Port of London; and having brought a chart of the Thames on deck at his first setting out, should obstinately use no other for the whole voyage.”

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Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“Nothing like a little judicious levity.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre The Wrong Box

The Wrong Box, ch. 7 (1889).

“It seems as if marriage were the royal road through life, and realised, on the instant, what we have all dreamed on summer Sundays when the bells ring, or at night when we cannot sleep for the desire of living. They think it will sober and change them. Like those who join a brotherhood, they fancy it needs but an act to be out of the coil and clamour for ever. But this is a wile of the devil's. To the end, spring winds will sow disquietude, passing faces leave a regret behind them, and the whole world keep calling and calling in their ears. For marriage is like life in this — that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Virginibus Puerisque

Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 1.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre The Master of Ballantrae

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.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Treasure Island

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.”

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An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)

“I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head;
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre A Child's Garden of Verses

My Shadow, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)

“To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre An Inland Voyage

An Inland Voyage (1878), Ch. III, "The Royal Sport Nautique".

“I have thus played the sedulous ape to Hazlitt, to Lamb, to Wordsworth, to Sir Thomas Browne, to Defoe, to Hawthorne, to Montaigne, to Baudelaire and to Obermann. (…) That, like it or not, is the way to learn to write whether I have profited or not, that is the way.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson livre Memories and Portraits

Memories and Portraits, ch. IV. A College Magazine (1887).

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