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
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Underwoods
Pt. I, My Body Which My Dungeon Is.
Underwoods (1887)
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 libro The Silverado Squatters
The Silverado Squatters.
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“The pleasant Land of Counterpane.”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro The Land of Counterpane
The Land of Counterpane, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Treasure Island
and I lived on rum, I tell you.
Fuente: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 3, The Black Spot.
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Across the Plains
Fuente: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
“Children, you are very little,
And your bones are very brittle.”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro 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 libro 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 libro Treasure Island
Fuente: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 10, The Voyage.
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Kidnapped
Kidnapped, ch. 10 (1886).
“A good conscience is eight parts of courage.”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro Catriona
Catriona, ch. XI (1893).
“Time passes quickly with lovers.”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro 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 libro 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 libro 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 libro The Suicide Club
The Suicide Club, Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
Robert Louis Stevenson libro The Silverado Squatters
Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
“The imagination loves to trifle with what is not.”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro The Silverado Squatters
The Sea Fogs
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
“Sanity itself is a kind of convention.”
Robert Louis Stevenson libro The Silverado Squatters
The Hunter’s Family
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
Robert Louis Stevenson libro The Silverado Squatters
Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
