Frases célebres de Robert Louis Stevenson
“No pido otra cosa: el cielo sobre mí y el camino bajo mis pies.”
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 394.
“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». <br class="br">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
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Olalla
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.
“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.”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Songs of Travel and Other Verses
No. XI, Romance, st. 1.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Across the Plains
Fuente: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Songs of Travel and Other Verses
No. XV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
“Gentleness and cheerfulness, these come before all morality; they are the perfect duties.”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Across the Plains
Fuente: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Underwoods
Bk. I, To a Gardener.
Underwoods (1887)
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)
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Across the Plains
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.”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Virginibus Puerisque
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 <br class="br">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 <br class="br">Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Across the Plains
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.”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Songs of Travel and Other Verses
No. XXV, If This Were Faith.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Songs of Travel and Other Verses
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.”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Songs of Travel and Other Verses
No. XIV
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
Robert Louis Stevenson libro A Child's Garden of Verses
Windy Nights, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Songs of Travel and Other Verses
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”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Underwoods
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.”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Underwoods
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.”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro A Child's Garden of Verses
Happy Thought.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
Robert Louis Stevenson libro A Child's Garden of Verses
The Cow, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
“Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro An Inland Voyage
An Inland Voyage (1878).
