Wilkie Collins citáty

William Wilkie Collins byl anglický romanopisec, autor povídek a divadelních her. Svá díla vydával pod jménem Wilkie Collins. Řadí se k autorům tzv. senzačních románů , které byly velmi populární v Anglii 60. a 70. let 19. století.

Za svůj život vydal 23 románů, šest sbírek povídek, jednu sbírku esejí, jeden cestopis, jednu biografii, patnáct divadelních her, přes 100 prací faktografického rázu a obrovské množství povídek, které nebyly vydány knižně, ale jen v časopisech.

Ve své době byl jedním z nejvyhledávanějších a také nejlépe placených spisovatelů. Přátelil se s mnoha význačnými osobnostmi z literárních kruhů, velmi blízko měl zejména ke spisovateli Charlesi Dickensovi. Ale na rozdíl od Dickense, jehož popularita po smrti vzrůstala, bylo Collinsovo jméno trochu pozapomenuto. Nicméně v současnosti se stávají práce Wilkieho Collinse předmětem pozornosti kritiků i čtenářů. Napomáhají tomu i poměrně časté televizní a filmové adaptace jeho děl.

Ve čtyřech svazcích byly vydány všechny jeho dopisy, které zveřejnily mnohé z jeho bouřlivého života. Vedl velmi nekonvenční, bohémský život, miloval dobré jídlo a víno, rád a často cestoval, udržoval dlouhodobé vztahy se dvěma ženami, ale s ani jednou se neoženil, a dlouhodobě se oddával braní velkých dávek opia, aby si ulevil od bolestí. Collinsův neortodoxní životní styl naznačuje jeho cynický pohled na tehdejší upjatou viktoriánskou společnost. To, spolu s jeho smyslem pro humor a kritikou křivd, jež se na lidech dopouštěla společnost, je patrné i v jeho románech.

K nejznámějším dílům Wilkieho Collinse se řadí romány Žena v bílém , Měsíční kámen , Armadale a Bezejmenný. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. leden 1824 – 23. září 1889   •   Další jména ویلکی کالینز, വിൽക്കി കോളിൻസ്
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Wilkie Collins: Citáty anglicky

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

Wilkie Collins kniha The Woman in White

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

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

Wilkie Collins kniha 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)
Zdroj: 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 kniha 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)
Zdroj: The Woman in White (1859)

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

Wilkie Collins kniha The Woman in White

Zdroj: The Woman in White

“Silence is safe.”

Wilkie Collins kniha The Woman in White

Zdroj: 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 kniha 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]
Zdroj: The Moonstone (1868)

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

Wilkie Collins kniha 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)
Zdroj: 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 kniha The Woman in White

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

“Don't let me think.”

Wilkie Collins kniha The Woman in White

Zdroj: 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 kniha 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 kniha 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 kniha 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 kniha 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)

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