“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 Image
“Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“I paid the cabman exactly his fare. He received it with an oath; upon which I instantly gave him a tract. If… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“He started up, and wrung my hand in quite an ecstasy of gratitude. How I do hate people who can only express… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“If it's any comfort to you, collar me again. You don't in the least know how to do it; but I'll overlook… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you think you see a certain contradiction here? In that case, a word in your ear. Study your wife closely, for… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“You hear more than enough of married people living together miserably. Here is an example to the contrary. Let it be a… — 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
“Excuse my dress. I was half an hour late this morning. When you lose half an hour in this house, you never… — 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 Image
“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 Image
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own. — 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 that has… — 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 travels -… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image