Frases célebres de Robert Louis Stevenson
“Las mentiras más crueles son dichas en silencio.”
Fuente: True of Intercourse (1878) en Virginibus Puerisque (1881).[ref. incompleta]
Robert Louis Stevenson Frases y Citas
“La dificultad de la literatura no es escribir, sino escribir lo que quieres decir.”
Original: «The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean».
Fuente: 5 Great Scottish Quotes, 11 de octubre de 2011, Scotland here and know http://www.scotlandhereandnow.com/2011/01/5-great-scottish-quotes.html,
Sin fuentes
Reflexiones
Fuente: [[Luján], Néstor, La mujer que fue Venus, Planeta, 1993, 65] ISBN 8408001973.
Fuente: Olalla, 1887.
“Vale más asegurar un interés que ganar mil libras esterlinas.”
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 167.
“Mi memoria es magnífica para olvidar.”
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 357.
“La única fortuna que vale la pena hallar es una meta en la vida.”
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 236.
“La política es, tal vez, la única profesión para la que no es necesaria ninguna preparación.”
Fuente: Sampson, Anthony. Anatomía de Gran Bretaña. Editorial Tecnos, S.A. 1971. p. 53.
“Dejad que hable cualquiera cierto tiempo, y veréis como consigue prosélitos.”
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 272.
Robert Louis Stevenson: Frases en inglés
A Gossip on Romance http://pages.prodigy.net/rogers99/rls_gossip_on_romance.html, printed in Longman's Magazine (November 1882).
“I will make you brooches and toys for your delight
Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.”
No. XI, Romance, st. 1.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
Fuente: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
No. XV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
“Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.”
Fuente: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
316.
Aes Triplex (1878)
Variante: Even if the doctor does not give a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Fuente: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
'La Fère of Cursed Memory', 15th vignette of An Inland Voyage (1878), in Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/8026833953, Stevenson, e-artnow (2015)
“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with someone else.”
Virginibus Puerisque, Ch. 1. http://books.google.com/books?id=Alw-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22You+could+read+Kant+by+yourself+if+you+wanted+but+you+must+share+a+joke+with+some+one%22+else&pg=PA17#v=onepage
Cornhill Magazine, (August 1876) http://books.google.com/books?id=VoNHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22You+could+read+Kant+by+yourself+if+you+wanted+but+you+must+share+a+joke+with+some+one+else%22&pg=PA174#v=onepage
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Fuente: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
Familiar Studies of Men and Books http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/fsomb10.txt (1882).
“God, if this were enough,
That I see things bare to the buff.”
No. XXV, If This Were Faith.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
No. II, Youth and Love - I, st. 3.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
“Bright is the ring of words
When the right man rings them.”
No. XIV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
Windy Nights, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
No. I, The Vagabond, st. 4.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
“Ice and iron cannot be welded.”
Weir of Hermiston http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext95/weirh10.txt (1896).
“There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.”
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“Who comes tonight? We ope the doors in vain”
Bk. I, To Henry James.
Underwoods (1887)
An Apology for Idlers.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Truth of Intercourse.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“There's just ae thing I cannae bear,
An' that's my conscience.”
Bk. II, In Scots, My Conscience.
Underwoods (1887)
“The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.”
Happy Thought.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
The Cow, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
An Inland Voyage (1878).
