Роберт Льюис Стивенсон: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 6)

“Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!”

“There is but one art, to omit.”

“Pieces of eight, pieces of eight, pieces of eight!”

“Am I no a bonny fighter?”

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

“A good conscience is eight parts of courage.”

“A friend is a gift you give yourself.”

“There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.”

“Time passes quickly with lovers.”

“A woman can earn her pardon for a good year of disobedience by a single adroit submission.”

“In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for practical existence.”

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”

“A woman loves to be obeyed at first, although afterwards she finds her pleasure in obeying.”

“But the more he is alone with nature, the greater man and his doings bulk in the consideration of his fellow-men.”

“The imagination loves to trifle with what is not.”

“Sanity itself is a kind of convention.”

“Though the coming of the day is still the most inspiriting, yet day's departure, also, and the return of night refresh, renew, and quiet us; and in the pastures of the dusk we stand, like cattle, exulting in the absence of the load.”