Robert Louis Stevenson słynne cytaty
„Lepiej roztrwonić zdrowie jak utracjusz niż przemarnować jak skąpiec.”
Źródło: Księga toastów i humoru biesiadnego, wybór i oprac. Leszek Bubel, wyd. „Zamek”, Warszawa 1995, s. 149.
„Ci, którzy zginą, będą szczęśliwi!”
Robert Louis Stevenson książka Wyspa skarbów
Wyspa skarbów (1881–1882)
Robert Louis Stevenson cytaty
„Piętnastu chłopów na Umrzyka Skrzyni –
Jo-ho-ho! i butelka rumu!”
Robert Louis Stevenson książka Wyspa skarbów
Wyspa skarbów (1881–1882)
Robert Louis Stevenson: Cytaty po angielsku
Robert Louis Stevenson książka 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 książka The Silverado Squatters
The Silverado Squatters.
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
“The pleasant Land of Counterpane.”
Robert Louis Stevenson książka The Land of Counterpane
The Land of Counterpane, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Robert Louis Stevenson książka Wyspa skarbów
and I lived on rum, I tell you.
Źródło: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 3, The Black Spot.
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Robert Louis Stevenson książka Across the Plains
Źródło: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.
“Children, you are very little,
And your bones are very brittle.”
Robert Louis Stevenson książka 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 książka 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 książka Wyspa skarbów
Źródło: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 10, The Voyage.
Robert Louis Stevenson książka Kidnapped
Kidnapped, ch. 10 (1886).
“A good conscience is eight parts of courage.”
Robert Louis Stevenson książka Catriona
Catriona, ch. XI (1893).
“Time passes quickly with lovers.”
Robert Louis Stevenson książka 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 książka 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 książka 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 książka The Suicide Club
The Suicide Club, Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk.
The New Arabian Nights (1882)
Robert Louis Stevenson książka The Silverado Squatters
Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
“The imagination loves to trifle with what is not.”
Robert Louis Stevenson książka The Silverado Squatters
The Sea Fogs
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
“Sanity itself is a kind of convention.”
Robert Louis Stevenson książka The Silverado Squatters
The Hunter’s Family
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
Robert Louis Stevenson książka The Silverado Squatters
Toils And Pleasures.
The Silverado Squatters (1883)
