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# Wilkie Collins

(1824–1889)   Writer   United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Wilkie Collins was a writer from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, best known for *The Moonstone*.

## Quick Facts About Wilkie Collins

Born January 8, 1824

Died September 23, 1889

Nationality United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Profession Writer

Notable works The Moonstone

Known for The Woman in White, The Moonstone

Spouse Caroline Compton

## About Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins (1824‑1889) was an English novelist and playwright best known for his mystery novels The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868). He was a British writer whose novel The Woman in White is considered an early sensation novel, while The Moonstone helped set the foundations of modern detective stories and is an early example of the police procedural genre.

##  Quotes by Wilkie Collins · Page 4

> [“In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/in-every-class-of-society-gratitude-is-the-rarest-of-all-human-virtues/)

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> [“I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/i-roused-myself-from-the-book-which-i-was-dreaming-over-rather-than/)

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> [But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/but-ah-me-where-is-the-faultless-human-creature-who-can-persevere-in/)

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> [Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/pedants-who-have-the-least-knowledge-to-be-proud-of-are-impelled-most/)

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[Be proud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/be-proud/)

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> [“He was, out of all sight (as I remember him), the nicest boy that ever spun a top or broke a window.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/he-was-out-of-all-sight-as-i-remember-him-the-nicest-boy-that-ever/)

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> [Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/men-little-know-when-they-say-hard-things-to-us-how-well-we-remember/)

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> [“What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/what-are-we-i-ask-but-puppets-in-a-show-box-oh-omnipotent-destiny/)

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> [“But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/but-compare-the-hardest-day-s-work-you-ever-did-with-the-idleness/)

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[Gardening](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gardening/)

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> [ “Noel Vanstone \[...\] composed himself to meet the coming ordeal, with reclining head and grasping hands - in the position familiarly associated… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/noel-vanstone-composed-himself-to-meet-the-coming-ordeal-with/)

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[Ordeal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ordeal/)

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> [“One after another, they were examined. One after another, they proved to have nothing to say--and said it (so far as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/one-after-another-they-were-examined-one-after-another-they-proved-to/)

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> [...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/it-will-always-remain-my-private-persuasion-that-nature-was-absorbed/)

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> [I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/i-am-an-average-good-christian-when-you-don-t-push-my-christianity/)

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> [“If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s face, then, and then only,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/if-ever-sorrow-and-suffering-set-their-profaning-marks-on-the-youth/)

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> [“You're the most extraordinary man I ever met with. One would think you had done nothing all your life but take people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/you-re-the-most-extraordinary-man-i-ever-met-with-one-would-think-you/)

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> [The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/the-woman-who-first-gives-life-light-and-form-to-our-shadowy/)

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> [I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/i-have-noticed-that-the-christianity-of-a-certain-class-of/)

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> [“My dear friend! what is there extraordinary in that? They are all in love with some other man. Who gets the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/my-dear-friend-what-is-there-extraordinary-in-that-they-are-all-in/)

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> [“Stop! If you must make excuses, Basil, I must ask no questions. You have a secret which you wish to keep from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/stop-if-you-must-make-excuses-basil-i-must-ask-no-questions-you-have/)

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> [“I agree with the late William Cobbett about picking a wife. See that she chews her food well and sets her foot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/i-agree-with-the-late-william-cobbett-about-picking-a-wife-see-that/)

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> [“Let Lady Glyde's maid come in, Louis. Stop! Do her shoes creak?" I was obliged to ask the question. Creaking shoes invariably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/let-lady-glyde-s-maid-come-in-louis-stop-do-her-shoes-creak-i-was/)

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> [“It is not for you to say - you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you have conveniently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/it-is-not-for-you-to-say-you-englishmen-who-have-conquered-your/)

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> [“The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/the-books-the-generous-friends-who-met-me-without-suspicion-the/)

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> [“You musn't talk of a young lady \*belonging\* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/you-musn-t-talk-of-a-young-lady-belonging-to-anybody-as-if-she-was-a/)

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> [“He started up, and wrung my hand in quite an ecstasy of gratitude. How I do hate people who can only express…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/he-started-up-and-wrung-my-hand-in-quite-an-ecstasy-of-gratitude-how/)

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> [“The servants were so surprised at seeing me that they hurried and bustled absurdly, and made all sorts of annoying mistakes. Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/the-servants-were-so-surprised-at-seeing-me-that-they-hurried-and/)

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> [Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/tears-are-scientifically-described-as-a-secretion-i-can-understand/)

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[Crying](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/crying/)

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> [“So the ghostly figure which has haunted these pages, as it haunted my life, goes down into the impenetrable gloom. Like a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/so-the-ghostly-figure-which-has-haunted-these-pages-as-it-haunted-my/)

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> [“Here, then, was one of my anticipations of the morning still unfulfilled. I began to wonder, next, whether my introduction to Miss…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/here-then-was-one-of-my-anticipations-of-the-morning-still/)

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> [Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/where-is-the-woman-who-has-ever-really-torn-from-her-heart-the-image/)

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> [“If it's any comfort to you, collar me again. You don't in the least know how to do it; but I'll overlook…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/if-it-s-any-comfort-to-you-collar-me-again-you-don-t-in-the-least/)

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> [“Tell him next, that crimes cause their own detection. There's another bit of copy-book morality for you, Fosco. Crimes cause their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/tell-him-next-that-crimes-cause-their-own-detection-there-s-another/)

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> [“Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/is-the-prison-that-mr-scoundrel-lives-in-at-the-end-of-his-career-a/)

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> [“We both wanted money. Immense necessity! Universal want! Is there a civilised human being who does not feel for us? How insensible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/we-both-wanted-money-immense-necessity-universal-want-is-there-a/)

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> [“We often hear, almost invariably, however, from superficial observers, that guilt can look like innocence. I believe it to be infinitely the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/we-often-hear-almost-invariably-however-from-superficial-observers/)

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> [“There is nothing serious in mortality! Solomon in all his glory was Solomon with the elements of the contemptible lurking in every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/there-is-nothing-serious-in-mortality-solomon-in-all-his-glory-was/)

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> [The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/the-future-of-english-fiction-may-rest-with-this-unknown-public-a/)

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> [“Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in your hands, and don't I know how ready your attention is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/lord-haven-t-i-seen-you-with-the-greatest-authors-in-your-hands-and/)

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> [“The little that he had said, thus far, had been sufficient to convince me that I was speaking to a gentleman. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/the-little-that-he-had-said-thus-far-had-been-sufficient-to-convince/)

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> [“When a sensible woman has a reasonable question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/when-a-sensible-woman-has-a-reasonable-question-put-to-her-and-evades/)

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> [“No woman can resist admiration and presents--especially presents, provided they happen to be just the thing she wants. He was sharp enough…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilkie-collins/no-woman-can-resist-admiration-and-presents-especially-presents/)

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## Wilkie Collins by topic

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