"And earth was heaven a little the worse……" — Wilkie Collins

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven… - Wilkie Collins

"And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new."

— Wilkie Collins

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55 Quotes by Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins has 55 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer…
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.…
I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of…
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…
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…
I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own…
I haven't much time to be fond of anything . . . But when I have a moment's fondness to…

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More Earth Quotes

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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