Robert Louis Stevenson livre Underwoods
Pt. I, My Body Which My Dungeon Is.
Underwoods (1887)
Robert Louis Stevenson: 118 citations0 J'aime
Robert Louis Stevenson: Citations en anglais
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“Youth now flees on feathered foot.”
To Will H. Low, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Prayer, inscribed on the bronze memorial to Stevenson in St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland
Robert Louis Stevenson livre The Silverado Squatters
The Silverado Squatters.
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“The pleasant Land of Counterpane.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livre The Land of Counterpane
The Land of Counterpane, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Robert Louis Stevenson livre Treasure Island
and I lived on rum, I tell you.
Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 3, The Black Spot.
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Robert Louis Stevenson livre Across the Plains
Source: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
“Children, you are very little,
And your bones are very brittle.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livre A Child's Garden of Verses
Good and Bad Children, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
“Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!”
Robert Louis Stevenson livre Songs of Travel and Other Verses
No. XLV, S.R. Crockett.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
“There is but one art, to omit.”
As cited in The Harper Book of Quotations, Revised Edition (1993), Ed. R. Fitzhenry, HarperCollins, p. 498 : ISBN 0062732137, 9780062732132
“Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!”
Robert Louis Stevenson livre Treasure Island
Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 10, The Voyage.
Robert Louis Stevenson livre Kidnapped
Kidnapped, ch. 10 (1886).
“A good conscience is eight parts of courage.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livre Catriona
Catriona, ch. XI (1893).
“Time passes quickly with lovers.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livre The Pavilion on the Links
The Pavilion on the Links, ch. V.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
“A woman can earn her pardon for a good year of disobedience by a single adroit submission.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livre The Rajah's Diamond
The Rajah's Diamond, Story of the Bandbox.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for practical existence.”
A Lodging for the Night.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livre Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)
“A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livre The Suicide Club
The Suicide Club, Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
Robert Louis Stevenson livre The Silverado Squatters
Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
“The imagination loves to trifle with what is not.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livre The Silverado Squatters
The Sea Fogs
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
“Sanity itself is a kind of convention.”
Robert Louis Stevenson livre The Silverado Squatters
The Hunter’s Family
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
Robert Louis Stevenson livre The Silverado Squatters
Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
