Best Wilkie Collins Quotes
- The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare. Advanced
- My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. Buttered
- I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in… All
- Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own… Any
- And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new. Earth
- ...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered… Absorbed
- The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained… All
- Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. Dwarfs
- Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of… Cannot See
- There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and… Compliment
- Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life. Funny
- The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was… Ago
- But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? Ah
- I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace. Add
- She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her. Alive
- Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own. Happier
- Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love?… Answer
- I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest,… Admit
- Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of… Book
- I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning,… Afternoon
- No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman. Engages
- The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out. Crime
- I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the… Accept
- The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil. Best
- We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast. Breakfast