The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ...… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“The ugly women have a bad time of it in this world; let's hope it will be made up to them in… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that… — 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
“Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those… — 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
“I have heard all I ever want to hear about the past," he said; "and I know what I most wanted to… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
I haven't much time to be fond of anything . . . But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories;… — 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
