“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
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
“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) <br class="br">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) <br class="br">Źródło: The Woman in White (1859)
Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White
Volume 1 [Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860] ( p. 336 https://books.google.com/books?id=rszxUvpszaMC&pg=PA336) <br class="br">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) <br class="br">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
Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White
Źródło: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White
Źródło: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White
Źródło: Collins explaining what he calls the literary principal guiding him, in the preface of the second edition of The Woman in White. Also in Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins by Maria K. Bachman & Don Richard Cox [University of Tennessee Press, 2003, ISBN 1-572-33274-3] ( p. xiv https://books.google.com/books?id=_X8AlmIp0dwC&pg=PR14)
Wilkie Collins książka The Moonstone
[Street, 1868] ( p. 86 https://books.google.com/books?id=sAqXBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA82) <br class="br">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] <br class="br">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
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) <br class="br">Źródło: The Moonstone [Street, 1868] ( p. 49 https://books.google.com/books?id=FmsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA49).
Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White
Źródło: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White
Źródło: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White
Źródło: The Woman in White
“This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.”
Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White
Źródło: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White
Źródło: The Woman in White
“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)
Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White
Źródło: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White
Źródło: The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins książka The Woman in White
Źródło: The Woman in White
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) <br class="br">Also in Wilkie Collins: An Illustrated Guide by Andrew Collins & Catherine Peters [Oxford University Press, 1998] (p. 139)
Wilkie Collins książka The Moonstone
[Street, 1868] ( p. 54 https://books.google.com/books?id=FmsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA18) <br class="br">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) <br class="br">The Moonstone (1868)
Wilkie Collins książka The Law and the Lady
The Law and the Lady [Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1875] ( p. 195) <br class="br">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) <br class="br">The Law and the Lady (1875)
Wilkie Collins książka Armadale
Armadale - Vol. II [Collier, 1886] ( p. 130 https://books.google.com/books?id=v7sBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA130) <br class="br">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) <br class="br">Also in Wilkie Collins: Man of Mystery and Imagination by Alexander Grinstein [International Universities Press, 2003, 0-823-66681-6] (p. 155)