Life Quote by Wilkie Collins

“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

“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

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

— Wilkie Collins

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

“The human heart is unsearchable. Who is to fathom it?”

— Wilkie Collins

“I smell your cigar. Delicious! Give me one directly.”

— Wilkie Collins

“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

“It is quite possible that I may be altogether wrong in this idea. My own impression, however, is, that I am right.”

— Wilkie Collins

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

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

“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

“The dress of Virtue, in our parts, was cotton print. I had silk.”

— Wilkie Collins