Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a… — 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
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
We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Nothing in this world is hidden forever. The gold which has lain for centuries unsuspected in the ground, reveals itself one day… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“My dear friend! what is there extraordinary in that? They are all in love with some other man. Who gets the first… — 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
“Darker and darker, he said; farther and farther yet. Death takes the good, the beautiful, and the young - and spares me.… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“The sketch of the summer-house which she had given me on the morning of our farewell, and which had never been separated… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace—they drag… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved… — 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