"Husbands and wives talk of the cares of……" — Wilkie Collins
"Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them."
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55 Quotes by Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins has 55 quotes on this site.
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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer…
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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre.…
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I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of…
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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
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The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies…
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We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most…
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I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own…
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything . . . But when I have a moment's fondness to…
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More Bachelors Quotes
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one of 143 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want…
— Jane Austen
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
— Francis Bacon
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Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
— Francis Bacon
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There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
— Sholom Aleichem
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The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya.
— Tommy Chong
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I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I…
— Eric Clapton
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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
— Oscar Wilde
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What I've learned from fatherhood is that having a son cannot, did not, change my love for The Bachelor! I…
— Jason Biggs
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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