“The small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“He has trifled with the sacred memory of my husband," thought the Professor's widow. "On my life and honor, I will make… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“It is the grand misfortune of my life that nobody will let me alone.” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“People in high life have all the luxuries to themselves - among others, the luxury of indulging their feelings. People in low… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“So the ghostly figure which has haunted these pages, as it haunted my life, goes down into the impenetrable gloom. Like a… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“You're the most extraordinary man I ever met with. One would think you had done nothing all your life but take people… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“This is a miserable world", says the Sergeant. "Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target --misfortune is always firing at… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“I should never, perhaps, have heard even the name of the woman who has lived in all my thoughts, who has possessed… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and barren… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories;… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ...… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“When a woman wants me to do anything (my daughter, or not, it doesn't matter), I always insist on knowing why. The… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Now, tell me, my dear, I said, what are you crying about? About the years that are gone, Mr. Betteredge," says Rosanna… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every fold of… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
“Let Lady Glyde's maid come in, Louis. Stop! Do her shoes creak?" I was obliged to ask the question. Creaking shoes invariably upset me… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
“I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels -… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
“It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
“He has that quiet deference, that look of pleased, attentive interest, in listening to a woman, which, say what we may, we can none… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
“It is not for you to say - you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you have conveniently forgotten what… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
“Tell him next, that crimes cause their own detection. There's another bit of copy-book morality for you, Fosco. Crimes cause their own detection. What… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
“Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
