Wilkie Collins

“themselves in so many”

— Wilkie Collins

“Silence is safe.”

— Wilkie Collins

“Don't let me think.”

— Wilkie Collins

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

— Wilkie Collins

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

— Wilkie Collins

“I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.”

— Wilkie Collins

“Lo que no está en mi corazón, no lo escribirá mi pluma.”

— Wilkie Collins

“You don’t have to speak at all— I know what you’d say… - Laura”

— Wilkie Collins

“I smell your cigar. Delicious! Give me one directly.”

— Wilkie Collins

“The dress of Virtue, in our parts, was cotton print. I had silk.”

— Wilkie Collins

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

— Wilkie Collins

I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.

— Wilkie Collins

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool…

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Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

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I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the…

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“In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as…

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

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We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.

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“The rod of iron with which he rules her never appears in company--it is a private rod, and is always kept upstairs.”

— Wilkie Collins

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the…

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“Men, being accustomed to act on reflection themselves, are a great deal too apt to believe that women act on reflection, too.…

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“Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those…

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“You hear more than enough of married people living together miserably. Here is an example to the contrary. Let it be a…

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There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't…

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I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the…

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I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But…

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The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred…

— Wilkie Collins

“The bleak autumn wind was still blowing, and the solemn, surging moan of it in the wood was dreary and awful to…

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“Here follows the substance of what I said, written out entirely for your benefit. Pay attention to it, or you will be…

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“No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace—they drag…

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“Mr. Bruff, I'm ordered to take exercise and I don't like it. That, added Aunt Ablewhite, pointing out of window to an…

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Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape…

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“You may scold your carpenter, when he has made a bad table, though you can't make a table yourself.' I say to…

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“Nature has so much to do in this world, and is engaged in generating such a vast variety of co-existent productions, that…

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“I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and barren…

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I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.

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“It is the grand misfortune of my life that nobody will let me alone.”

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Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

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“The human heart is unsearchable. Who is to fathom it?”

— Wilkie Collins

Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.

— Wilkie Collins