Wilkie Collins Quotes

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• But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them
• It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
• Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that…
• I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled,…
• I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
• Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
• The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale…
• We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
• The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
• I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get…
• I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's…
• I haven't much time to be fond of anything . . . But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times . .…
• The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper…
• It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
• The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.
• I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
• Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
• I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
• This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
• I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

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