“You hear more than enough of married people living together miserably.” — 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
“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
Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them. — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“I agree with the late William Cobbett about picking a wife. See that she chews her food well and sets her foot… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“… you are so much better off as a single woman – unless – unless you are very fond of your husband …” — 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
“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
