Wilkie Collins cytaty

William Wilkie Collins – angielski powieściopisarz, dramaturg, autor opowiadań. Syn malarza Williama Collinsa.

Ogromnie popularny za życia. Napisał 30 powieści, ponad 60 opowiadań, 14 dramatów i ponad 100 esejów. Najbardziej znane powieści to The Woman in White , The Moonstone , Armadale i No Name. Prekursor powieści detektywistycznej – Kamień Księżycowy uważany jest za pierwszą powieść tego gatunku. Bliski przyjaciel Karola Dickensa. Od ich spotkania w marcu 1851 aż do śmierci Dickensa w czerwcu 1870, Collins był jednym z najlepiej znanych, najbardziej kochanych i, przez jakiś czas, najlepiej opłacanych wiktoriańskich beletrystów.

Jego twórczość miała istotny wpływ na brytyjskiego reżysera Alfreda Hitchcocka. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Styczeń 1824 – 23. Wrzesień 1889   •   Natępne imiona ویلکی کالینز, വിൽക്കി കോളിൻസ്
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Wilkie Collins: Cytaty po angielsku

“Dont speak of tomorrow. Let the music speak to us tonight, in a happier language than ours.”

Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White

Wariant: Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
Źródło: The Woman in White

“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”

Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White

Volume II [Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 226 https://books.google.com/books?id=xAm2X8YfpJIC&pg=PA226)
Also in The Secret Ingredient by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2012, ISBN 1-442-41960-1] ( p. 169 https://books.google.com/books?id=o1ctj37QuikC&pg=PA169)
Źródło: The Woman in White (1859)

“Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”

Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White

Volume 1 [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 336 https://books.google.com/books?id=rszxUvpszaMC&pg=PA336)
Also in The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins by Catherine Peters ( p. 224 https://books.google.com/books?id=T0AABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA224)
Źródło: The Woman in White (1859)

“No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.”

Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White

Źródło: The Woman in White

“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”

Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White

Źródło: The Woman in White

“The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?”

Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White

Źródło: The Woman in White

“Silence is safe.”

Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White

Źródło: The Woman in White

“Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it.”

Wilkie Collins książka The Moonstone

[Street, 1868] ( p. 86 https://books.google.com/books?id=sAqXBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA82)
Also in Soulsalsa: 17 Surprising Steps for Godly Living in the 21st Century https://books.google.com/books?id=E2S3nWp-lAgC&pg=PT61 by Leonard Sweet [Zondervan, 2009, ISBN 0-310-83380-9]
Źródło: The Moonstone (1868)

“Some of us rush through life and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.”

Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White

Źródło: The Woman in White

“We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.”

Wilkie Collins książka The Moonstone

Also in Recipes from an Edwardian Country House: A Stately English Home Shares Its Classic Tastes by Laura Schaefer [Simon & Schuster, 2013, ISBN 1-476-73033-4] ( p. 22 https://books.google.com/books?id=zZPzAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA22)
Źródło: The Moonstone [Street, 1868] ( p. 49 https://books.google.com/books?id=FmsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA49).

“I am nothing but a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man.”

Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White

Volume II [Tauchnitz,
Źródło: The Woman in White (1859)

“Don't let me think.”

Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White

Źródło: The Woman in White

“People who read stories are said to have excitable brains.”

Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time - Vol. II [Bernhard Tauchnitz] ( p. 57 https://books.google.com/books?id=sKYzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA57)
Also in Wilkie Collins: An Illustrated Guide by Andrew Collins & Catherine Peters [Oxford University Press, 1998] (p. 139)

“Rosanna Spearman had been a thief, and not being of the sort that get up Companies in the City, and rob from thousands, instead of only robbing from one, the law laid hold of her, and the prison and the reformatory followed the lead of the law.”

Wilkie Collins książka The Moonstone

[Street, 1868] ( p. 54 https://books.google.com/books?id=FmsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA18)
Also in Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England by Anne Schwan [University of New Hampshire Press, 2014, ISBN 1611686725] ( p. 82 https://books.google.com/books?id=sAqXBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA82)
The Moonstone (1868)

“I confess I have often fancied myself transformed into some other person, and have felt a certian pleasure in seeing myself in my new chracter. One of our first amusements as children (if we have any imagination at all) is to get out of our own characters, and to try the characters of other personages as a change—to be fairies, to be queens, to be anything, in short, but what we really are.”

Wilkie Collins książka The Law and the Lady

The Law and the Lady [Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1875] ( p. 195)
Also in Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock by Eleanor Salotto [Springer, 2016, ISBN 1-137-11770-2 https://books.google.com/books?id=qPmE-w86r0AC&pg=PA195 ( p. 39 https://books.google.com/books?id=recYDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA39)
The Law and the Lady (1875)

“I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.”

Wilkie Collins książka Armadale

Armadale - Vol. II [Collier, 1886] ( p. 130 https://books.google.com/books?id=v7sBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA130)
Also in Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England: From Dickens to Eliot by Carolyn Oulton [Springer, 2002, ISBN 0-230-50464-7] ( p. 136 https://books.google.com/books?id=abuADAAAQBAJ&pg=PA136)

“Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.”

Wilkie Collins książka Man and Wife

Man and Wife - Vol. II [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1870] ( p. 235 https://books.google.com/books?id=Dp-ZFYLTW6QC&pg=PA235)
Also in Wilkie Collins: Man of Mystery and Imagination by Alexander Grinstein [International Universities Press, 2003, 0-823-66681-6] (p. 155)