James Matthew Barrie citáty
James Matthew Barrie
Datum narození: 9. květen 1860
Datum úmrtí: 19. červen 1937
Další jména: Джеймс Мэтью Барри
Sir James Matthew Barrie byl skotský novinář a spisovatel, který byl nejen prozaik-romanopisec, ale především dramatik.
Citáty James Matthew Barrie
„Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years.“
Zdroj: The Little Minister (1891), Ch. 3 : The Night-Watchers
Kontext: Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.
„Occasionally in her travels through her children's minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter.“
— J. M. Barrie, kniha Peter Pan
Zdroj: Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 1
Kontext: Occasionally in her travels through her children's minds Mrs. Darling found things she could not understand, and of these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter. She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy's began to be scrawled all over with him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs. Darling gazed she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance.
"Yes, he is rather cocky," Wendy admitted with regret. Her mother had been questioning her.
„If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, "Why, of course, I did, child," and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say, "What a foolish question to ask; certainly he did."“
— J. M. Barrie, kniha The Little White Bird
Then if you ask your grandmother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a girl, she also says, "Why, of course, I did, child," but if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she says she never heard of his having a goat. Perhaps she has forgotten, just as she sometimes forgets your name and calls you Mildred, which is your mother's name. Still, she could hardly forget such an important thing as the goat. Therefore there was no goat when your grandmother was a little girl. This shows that, in telling the story of Peter Pan, to begin with the goat (as most people do) is as silly as to put on your jacket before your vest.
Of course, it also shows that Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least.
Zdroj: The Little White Bird (1902), Ch. 14
„To look upon you was to rejoice that so fair a thing could be; to think of you is still to be young.“
Zdroj: The Little Minister (1891), Ch. 1 : The Love-Light
Kontext: The gladness of living was in your step, your voice was melody, and he was wondering what love might be.
You were the daughter of a summer night, born where all the birds are free, and the moon christened you with her soft light to dazzle the eyes of man. Not our little minister alone was stricken by you into his second childhood. To look upon you was to rejoice that so fair a thing could be; to think of you is still to be young.
„They didna speak, but they just gave one another a look, and I saw the love-light in their een.“
Zdroj: The Little Minister (1891), Ch. 1 : The Love-Light
Kontext: "They didna speak, but they just gave one another a look, and I saw the love-light in their een." No more is remembered of these two, no being now living ever saw them, but the poetry that was in the soul of a battered weaver makes them human to us for ever.
It is of another minister I am to tell, but only to those who know that light when they see it. I am not bidding good-bye to many readers, for though it is true that some men, of whom Lord Rintoul was one, live to an old age without knowing love, few of us can have met them, and of women so incomplete I never heard.
„Of course, it also shows that Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least.“
— J. M. Barrie, kniha The Little White Bird
Zdroj: The Little White Bird (1902), Ch. 14
Kontext: If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, "Why, of course, I did, child," and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days she will say, "What a foolish question to ask; certainly he did." Then if you ask your grandmother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a girl, she also says, "Why, of course, I did, child," but if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those days, she says she never heard of his having a goat. Perhaps she has forgotten, just as she sometimes forgets your name and calls you Mildred, which is your mother's name. Still, she could hardly forget such an important thing as the goat. Therefore there was no goat when your grandmother was a little girl. This shows that, in telling the story of Peter Pan, to begin with the goat (as most people do) is as silly as to put on your jacket before your vest.
Of course, it also shows that Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the same age, so that does not matter in the least.
„When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter's mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.“
— J. M. Barrie, kniha Peter Pan
Zdroj: Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 17
Kontext: As you look at Wendy, you may see her hair becoming white, and her figure little again, for all this happened long ago. Jane is now a common grown-up, with a daughter called Margaret; and every spring cleaning time, except when he forgets, Peter comes for Margaret and takes her to the Neverland, where she tells him stories about himself, to which he listens eagerly. When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter's mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
„Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.“
— J. M. Barrie, kniha Peter Pan
Zdroj: Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 17
Kontext: The last thing he ever said to me was, "Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing."
„Sometimes the little boy who calls me father brings me an invitation from his mother: "I shall be so pleased if you will come and see me," and I always reply in some such words as these: "Dear madam, I decline."“
— J. M. Barrie, kniha The Little White Bird
And if David asks why I decline, I explain that it is because I have no desire to meet the woman.
"Come this time, father," he urged lately, "for it is her birthday, and she is twenty-six," which is so great an age to David, that I think he fears she cannot last much longer.
Zdroj: The Little White Bird (1902), Ch. 1
„If you believe, clap your hands!“
— J. M. Barrie, kniha Peter Pan
Act IV
Peter Pan (1904)
Kontext: Do you believe in fairies?... If you believe, clap your hands!
„It is of another minister I am to tell, but only to those who know that light when they see it.“
Zdroj: The Little Minister (1891), Ch. 1 : The Love-Light
Kontext: "They didna speak, but they just gave one another a look, and I saw the love-light in their een." No more is remembered of these two, no being now living ever saw them, but the poetry that was in the soul of a battered weaver makes them human to us for ever.
It is of another minister I am to tell, but only to those who know that light when they see it. I am not bidding good-bye to many readers, for though it is true that some men, of whom Lord Rintoul was one, live to an old age without knowing love, few of us can have met them, and of women so incomplete I never heard.
„All children, except one, grow up.“
— J. M. Barrie, kniha Peter Pan
Zdroj: Peter and Wendy (1911), Ch. 1
Kontext: All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, "Oh, why can't you remain like this for ever!" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
„Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.“
Rectorial Address, St. Andrew's (3 May 1922)
„"In twenty years," I said, smiling at her tears, "a man grows humble, Mary. I have stored within me a great fund of affection, with nobody to give it to, and I swear to you, on the word of a soldier, that if there is one of those ladies who can be got to care for me I shall be very proud." Despite her semblance of delight I knew that she was wondering at me, and I wondered at myself, but it was true.“
— J. M. Barrie, kniha The Little White Bird
Zdroj: The Little White Bird (1902), Ch. 26
„Oh, it's — it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.“
— J. M. Barrie, What Every Woman Knows
Act I
What Every Woman Knows (1908)
