“I find novels compose my mind. Do you read novels too? - Reverend Finch's wife” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Now I will be anything else you please, except dull. You may say I have been dull already? As I am an… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Marian and I avoided all further reference to that other subject, which by her consent and mine, was not to be mentioned… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Who cares for his causes of complaint? Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man under… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Here follows the substance of what I said, written out entirely for your benefit. Pay attention to it, or you will be… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects… — 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
