John Wyndham cytaty

John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris – brytyjski pisarz fantastyki naukowej.

✵ 10. Lipiec 1903 – 11. Marzec 1969
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John Wyndham słynne cytaty

„Gołębica nie jest tchórzem, bojąc się jastrzębia. Jest po prostu mądra.”

Kukułcze jaja z Midwich (1957)

„Nie wiem, czy spłodzono kiedyś głupsze i bardziej fałszywe określenie, jak Matka Natura.”

Cywilizację wymyślono tylko dlatego, że Natura jest nielitościwa, nikczemna i niewiarygodnie okrutna. Każdy gatunek musi walczyć o przetrwanie przy użyciu odrażających, plugawych środków.
Kukułcze jaja z Midwich (1957)

„I powiedział Bóg: Stworzę człowieka na swój obraz i podobieństwo.”

Podobieństwo to nie tylko powierzchowność, bo w takim razie każdy posąg byłby człowiekiem.
Kukułcze jaja z Midwich (1957)

John Wyndham: Cytaty po angielsku

“Cruelty is as old as life itself.”

John Wyndham książka The Midwich Cuckoos

The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 19 - p.200 [Joseph]

“The law punishes the criminal after he has been successful: it is no use to us.”

John Wyndham książka The Midwich Cuckoos

The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 18 - p.182 [Eric]

“The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.”

John Wyndham książka The Midwich Cuckoos

The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 16 - p.147 [Zellaby]

“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.”

John Wyndham książka The Day of the Triffids

Źródło: Book opening line. (Ch.1, p.7) [Page numbers per the Penguin Books paperback, 1954 reprint.]

“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”

John Wyndham książka The Day of the Triffids

Źródło: The Day of the Triffids

“Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.”

John Wyndham książka The Midwich Cuckoos

Źródło: The Midwich Cuckoos

“There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.”

John Wyndham książka The Chrysalids

Źródło: Ch 1 - p.391, 392 [Page numbers per the Michael Joseph "The John Wyndham Omnibus" hardback 1964. 'The Chrysalids' features at pp.383-532

“If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.”

John Wyndham książka The Midwich Cuckoos

Źródło: The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 21 - p.220 [Zellaby]

“The wise lamb does not enrage the lion, it placates him, plays for time, and hopes for the best.”

John Wyndham książka The Midwich Cuckoos

The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 21 - p.213 [Zellaby]

“And, after all, what is a planet but an island in space?”

John Wyndham książka The Midwich Cuckoos

The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 19 - p.205 [Zellaby]

“Nobody, nobody but a child, or a child-minded person, expects life to be fair.”

John Wyndham książka The Midwich Cuckoos

The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 9 - p.70 [Angela] [Page numbers per the Penguin Books paperback, 1982 reprint.]

“We've got it all there in the books if we take the trouble to find out about it.”

John Wyndham książka The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids (1951), ch 12 - p.204

“You can't drive a flock of sheep to market in a dead straight line, but there are ways of getting 'em there.”

John Wyndham książka The Day of the Triffids

The Day of the Triffids (1951), ch 10 - p.179

“Bored! My God, to think that I could ever have been bored up there.”

John Wyndham książka The Secret People

Pt. II, Ch. II - p.64
Novels, The Secret People (1935)